{"id":31649,"date":"2012-10-01T03:28:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T07:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31649"},"modified":"2012-10-01T03:28:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T07:28:17","slug":"mit-economist-pitches-cancer-megafund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2012\/mit-economist-pitches-cancer-megafund.html","title":{"rendered":"MIT economist pitches cancer megafund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe &#8211; Andrew W. Lo, the MIT finance professor and hedge fund manager, wants to bring Wall Street-style financial\u00ad engineering to a crucial social need: curing cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Named this year as one of Time magazine\u2019s 100 most influential people in the world, Lo runs an investment firm in Cambridge called AlphaSimplex Group, with $3 billion in assets. He is known for his \u201cadaptive markets\u201d financial theory, which maintains that prices and investors are not always rational.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonglobe.com\/business\/2012\/09\/30\/mit-professor-andrew-proposes-cancer-megafund-billion-speed-cures\/iHLdtvRa0ZfqH9FuxjQ7mJ\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe &#8211; Andrew W. Lo, the MIT finance professor and hedge fund manager, wants to bring Wall Street-style financial\u00ad engineering to a crucial social need: curing cancer. Named this year as one of Time magazine\u2019s 100 most influential people [&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-31649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31649","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=31649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31650,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31649\/revisions\/31650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}