{"id":31629,"date":"2012-09-28T07:50:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T11:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31629"},"modified":"2012-09-28T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T11:58:15","slug":"college-students-launch-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2012\/college-students-launch-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"College Students Launch Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) – North Carolina registered Lumina\u00a0Investments, LLC, founded and managed by three\u00a0North Carolina\u00a0college students, has opened its first hedge fund that seeks to capitalize on the growing influence of “macro events” on the behavior of global financial markets.<\/p>\n

“Globalization has increased correlation and volatility among international financial markets. We believe there is upside investment opportunity through a strategy founded on understanding international developments and their global impact,” said\u00a0Elliot Carol, Chairman and Principal Managing Partner of Lumina Investments.<\/p>\n

Lumina’s new fund will invest directly and indirectly into markets that are affected by international political and economic volatility using equities, commodities, fixed-income and currency trading, he said.<\/p>\n

Carol,\u00a0Marcus Varsano\u00a0and\u00a0Ryan Mahoney\u00a0formed Lumina Investments in 2011. Carol and Varsano, Lumina’s Director of Investor Relations, are students at the\u00a0University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Cameron School\u00a0of Business. Mahoney, the firm’s specialist in global securities and derivative structures, is a student at\u00a0East Carolina University.
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New York (HedgeCo.Net) – North Carolina registered Lumina\u00a0Investments, LLC, founded and managed by three\u00a0North Carolina\u00a0college students, has opened its first hedge fund that seeks to capitalize on the growing influence of “macro events” on the behavior of global financial markets. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-launches","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31629","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=31629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31632,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31629\/revisions\/31632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}