{"id":34317,"date":"2013-03-07T07:48:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=34317"},"modified":"2013-03-07T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T12:50:00","slug":"bridgewater-may-be-the-hottest-hedge-fund-for-harvard-grads-but-its-also-the-weirdest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2013\/bridgewater-may-be-the-hottest-hedge-fund-for-harvard-grads-but-its-also-the-weirdest.html","title":{"rendered":"Bridgewater May Be the Hottest Hedge Fund for Harvard Grads, but It\u2019s Also the Weirdest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Beast &#8211; In the Northeast, spring is in the air, and at Ivy League schools, kids are planning their postgraduate futures. But this year, many of the smart young finance things who used to flood to positions at name-brand banks in lower Manhattan are casting their sights elsewhere. It\u2019s not a bank. It\u2019s not in New York. And it\u2019s not a century-old global institution with a patrician name.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Bridgewater Associates. Based in Westport, Connecticut, and founded and led by a person who is equal parts investing savant and shaman, Bridgewater might best be described as an alternative alternative asset-management company. It\u2019s the creation of Ray Dalio, who was memorably described in a great New Yorker profile by John Cassidy thusly: \u201cHe looked a bit like an aging member of a British progressive-rock group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/03\/07\/bridgewater-may-be-the-hottest-hedge-fund-for-harvard-grads-but-it-s-also-the-weirdest.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Beast &#8211; In the Northeast, spring is in the air, and at Ivy League schools, kids are planning their postgraduate futures. But this year, many of the smart young finance things who used to flood to positions at [&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-34317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34317","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=34317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34319,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34317\/revisions\/34319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}