{"id":33771,"date":"2013-02-06T08:28:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=33771"},"modified":"2013-02-06T08:28:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:28:32","slug":"merchant-commodity-fund-cuts-jobs-after-second-annual-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2013\/merchant-commodity-fund-cuts-jobs-after-second-annual-loss.html","title":{"rendered":"Merchant Commodity Fund Cuts Jobs After Second Annual Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The Merchant Commodity Fund, managed by Doug King and Michael Coleman, cut a third of its staff after two consecutive years of losses during which assets under management slumped almost 90 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The hedge fund cut five jobs last month, including traders and analysts in Singapore and London, Chief Operating Officer Coleman said in an interview. Assets fell to $170 million in January after investors withdrew money, according to Coleman, who\u2019s also chief risk officer. Merchant, set up with $10 million in June 2004, had managed $1.56 billion at the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-02-06\/merchant-commodity-hedge-fund-cuts-jobs-after-second-losing-year.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The Merchant Commodity Fund, managed by Doug King and Michael Coleman, cut a third of its staff after two consecutive years of losses during which assets under management slumped almost 90 percent. The hedge fund cut five jobs [&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-33771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33771","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=33771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33772,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33771\/revisions\/33772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}