{"id":29084,"date":"2012-05-18T07:08:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T11:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29084"},"modified":"2012-05-18T07:08:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T11:08:46","slug":"sec-begins-investigation-into-us-hedge-fund-magnetar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2012\/sec-begins-investigation-into-us-hedge-fund-magnetar.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC begins investigation into US hedge fund Magnetar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau Of Investigative Journalism\u00a0&#8211; The hedge fund Magnetar helped create billions of dollars\u2019 worth of risky deals called collateralized debt obligations, many of which failed spectacularly in the financial crisis. Magnetar, meanwhile, had taken positions that allowed the firm to profit when many of those same CDOs collapsed. Since Magnetar\u2019s dealings was\u00a0reported\u00a0on two years ago, there\u2019s been a long line of investigations and settlements related to the hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetar itself has never been charged with wrongdoing, and it has always maintained that it did not have a strategy to bet against CDOs they were involved with. But today\u2019s\u00a0Wall Street Journal reported\u00a0that Magnetar is indeed under investigation by the SEC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebureauinvestigates.com\/2012\/05\/18\/the-us-hedge-fund-magnetar-comes-under-the-spotlight\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau Of Investigative Journalism\u00a0&#8211; The hedge fund Magnetar helped create billions of dollars\u2019 worth of risky deals called collateralized debt obligations, many of which failed spectacularly in the financial crisis. Magnetar, meanwhile, had taken positions that allowed the firm [&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-29084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084","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=29084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29085,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084\/revisions\/29085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}