{"id":33777,"date":"2013-02-06T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=33777"},"modified":"2013-02-06T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:33:09","slug":"the-worlds-hottest-hedge-fund-tiger-global-has-quietly-sold-its-gun-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2013\/the-worlds-hottest-hedge-fund-tiger-global-has-quietly-sold-its-gun-stock.html","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Hottest Hedge Fund, Tiger Global, Has Quietly Sold Its Gun Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Tiger Global Management in past months discreetly sold a stake in the largest public U.S. gun company, as critics vilified the firearm industry following the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Global established a sizable position in Sturm, Ruger that placed it among the $991 million company\u2019s largest shareholders. According to the investment firm\u2019s most recent SEC filling, it owned 800,000 shares as of Sept. 30, a 4.2% stake in Ruger then worth $40 million. Tiger Global amassed the position in the third quarter when the stock traded between $40.15 and $49.49.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/abrambrown\/2013\/02\/04\/the-worlds-hottest-hedge-fund-tiger-global-has-quietly-sold-its-gun-stock\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Tiger Global Management in past months discreetly sold a stake in the largest public U.S. gun company, as critics vilified the firearm industry following the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre. Tiger Global established a sizable position in Sturm, Ruger [&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-33777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33777","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=33777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33778,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33777\/revisions\/33778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}