{"id":29392,"date":"2012-06-07T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29392"},"modified":"2012-06-06T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T21:10:36","slug":"texas-teachers-harris-taking-alternative-investing-to-new-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2012\/texas-teachers-harris-taking-alternative-investing-to-new-risks.html","title":{"rendered":"Texas Teachers&#8217; Harris Taking Alternative Investing to New Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; After working for almost two decades as a money manager, Britt Harris at age 45 was what most people would consider a success. Bridgewater Associates LP&#8217;s Ray Dalio and Bob Prince had just tapped him to be chief executive officer of the world&#8217;s largest hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>A father of four, Harris also found time to coach his kids&#8217; baseball teams and teach Bible classes at his church. Still, something was gnawing at him. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t sleep for one night,&#8221; the Texas native recalls. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t sleep for a week. Then, after not having slept for three months, I told Bob and Ray I wanted to resign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2012\/06\/06\/bloomberg_articlesM53X6X1A1I4I01-M5419.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; After working for almost two decades as a money manager, Britt Harris at age 45 was what most people would consider a success. Bridgewater Associates LP&#8217;s Ray Dalio and Bob Prince had just tapped him to be chief [&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-29392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29392","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=29392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29393,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29392\/revisions\/29393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}