{"id":30107,"date":"2012-07-16T06:48:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T10:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30107"},"modified":"2012-07-16T06:48:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T10:48:48","slug":"buffett-empowers-deputies-raises-funds-to-8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2012\/buffett-empowers-deputies-raises-funds-to-8b.html","title":{"rendered":"Buffett Empowers Deputies, Raises Funds to $8B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeWeek &#8211; Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman and chief executive officer of\u00a0Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is entrusting more of his company\u2019s investments to deputy stock pickers as he prepares the firm for his eventual departure.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, former hedge-fund managers hired in the past two years, will probably oversee about $4 billion apiece for Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire, Buffett said in a July 13 interview with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television\u2019s \u201cIn the Loop.\u201d Each oversaw about $2.75 billion at the beginning of the year, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-07-16\/buffett-empowers-deputies-by-raising-funds-to-8-billion\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeWeek &#8211; Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman and chief executive officer of\u00a0Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is entrusting more of his company\u2019s investments to deputy stock pickers as he prepares the firm for his eventual departure. Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, former [&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-30107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30107","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=30107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30109,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30107\/revisions\/30109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}