{"id":28241,"date":"2012-03-29T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T15:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28241"},"modified":"2012-03-29T11:59:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T15:59:18","slug":"hedge-fund-star-jean-francois-tardif-comes-out-of-retirement-to-launch-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2012\/hedge-fund-star-jean-francois-tardif-comes-out-of-retirement-to-launch-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund star Jean-Francois Tardif comes out of retirement to launch fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opalesque \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0In 2009, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Tardif retired from Sprott Asset Management as one of the top hedge fund managers in the industry. Since then, he has been living a quieter life in Canada. Now, he is coming out of retirement and has been hired by Toronto-based First Asset Investment Management Inc. to run a new closed-end hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>The fund will list on the Toronto exchange in May. The new fund &#8211; JFT Strategies Fund will be Long\/Short Equities based. First Asset Management has approximately $2.6bn in total assets in addition to the new fund. Tardif has also launched his own firm &#8211; Timelo Investment Management Inc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/641330\/Hedge_fund_star_Tardif_comes_out_of133.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opalesque \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0In 2009, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Tardif retired from Sprott Asset Management as one of the top hedge fund managers in the industry. Since then, he has been living a quieter life in Canada. Now, he is coming out of retirement and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28242,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28241\/revisions\/28242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}