{"id":34408,"date":"2013-03-15T11:44:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=34408"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:44:58","slug":"hedge-fund-tycoon-odey-collects-1-7m-from-bet-on-trinity-mirror-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2013\/hedge-fund-tycoon-odey-collects-1-7m-from-bet-on-trinity-mirror-slide.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund tycoon Odey collects \u00a31.7m from bet on Trinity Mirror slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent UK &#8211; The hedge fund millionaire Crispin Odey was \u00a31.7m richer yesterday after the arrest of four former Sunday Mirror journalists sent shares in owner Trinity Mirror tumbling more than 20 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Odey took a \u00a310m bet against the firm last November, although he told The Independent he &#8220;didn&#8217;t dislike the company&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;It looks like I&#8217;m a genius but I&#8217;m not \u2013 I&#8217;ve just got some fantastically good analysts. In a bull market you don&#8217;t like shorting shares, it&#8217;s a perfectly all right company but it had gone a bit far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Odey, who said he might buy in again at the stock&#8217;s current levels, is worth around \u00a3455m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. He is married to Nichola Pease, former head of the fund manager JO Hambro Capital Management and a Schroders non- executive director.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/news\/hedge-fund-tycoon-odey-collects-17m-from-bet-on-trinity-mirror-slide-8535532.html\">Read Complete Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent UK &#8211; The hedge fund millionaire Crispin Odey was \u00a31.7m richer yesterday after the arrest of four former Sunday Mirror journalists sent shares in owner Trinity Mirror tumbling more than 20 per cent. Mr Odey took a \u00a310m bet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34408","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34409,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34408\/revisions\/34409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}