{"id":29394,"date":"2012-06-07T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29394"},"modified":"2012-06-06T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T21:22:52","slug":"luke-ellis-%e2%80%93-the-ex-farmer-now-growing-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2012\/luke-ellis-%e2%80%93-the-ex-farmer-now-growing-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Luke Ellis \u2013 the ex-farmer now growing hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Telegraph &#8211; Ferraris, Dom Perignon and the Cote d&#8217;Azur are the typical trappings of millionaire hedge fund managers. As a rule, pigs don&#8217;t get much of a look in. But Luke Ellis, the man many are tipping to be Man Group&#8217;s next chief executive, gave it all up for farm animals. He says it was the best decision he ever made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Last month, Ellis oversaw Man&#8217;s acquisition of FRM, bringing to the listed hedge fund giant an extra $8bn (\u00a35.2bn) of assets to manage. Ellis helped build FRM, a fund of hedge funds manager, from a $15m business a decade ago to a $15bn firm. But after a decade of high finance, and a veiled ultimatum from his wife, he packed it all in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/banksandfinance\/9311993\/Luke-Ellis-the-ex-farmer-now-growing-hedge-funds.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; Ferraris, Dom Perignon and the Cote d&#8217;Azur are the typical trappings of millionaire hedge fund managers. As a rule, pigs don&#8217;t get much of a look in. But Luke Ellis, the man many are tipping to be Man [&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-29394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29394","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=29394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29395,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29394\/revisions\/29395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}