{"id":34188,"date":"2013-03-01T07:53:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=34188"},"modified":"2013-03-01T07:53:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:53:33","slug":"hedge-fund-in-whale-trade-tried-to-poach-jpm-employees-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2013\/hedge-fund-in-whale-trade-tried-to-poach-jpm-employees-sources.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund in &#8220;Whale&#8221; trade tried to poach JPM employees: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; BlueMountain Capital, a hedge fund involved in JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co.&#8217;s $6.2 billion trading loss last year, tried to recruit several employees in the bank&#8217;s chief investment office in the months before the losses, according to two people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The New York-based hedge fund had targeted people in the trading and risk management divisions of JPMorgan&#8217;s chief investment office, the same part of the bank where Bruno Iksil, the trader who became known as the &#8216;London Whale&#8217; for his outsized positions in a small derivatives market, was working.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/02\/28\/us-jpm-cio-bluemountain-idUSBRE91R1DE20130228\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; BlueMountain Capital, a hedge fund involved in JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co.&#8217;s $6.2 billion trading loss last year, tried to recruit several employees in the bank&#8217;s chief investment office in the months before the losses, according to two 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-34188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34188","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=34188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34190,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34188\/revisions\/34190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}