{"id":34441,"date":"2013-03-19T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=34441"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:13:00","slug":"avenue-hedge-fund-names-cio-as-lasry-seen-getting-ambassadorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2013\/avenue-hedge-fund-names-cio-as-lasry-seen-getting-ambassadorship.html","title":{"rendered":"Avenue hedge fund names CIO as Lasry seen getting ambassadorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; As speculation mounts that Avenue Capital hedge fund co-founder Marc Lasry will be nominated as the next U.S. ambassador to France, his $12 billion firm has told investors it is naming its first chief investment officer, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Lasry, who co-founded the distressed debt firm with sister Sonia Gardner in 1995, is a longtime Democratic donor who was one of the few hedge fund managers to support President Barack Obama during his re-election campaign last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/03\/18\/us-hedgefunds-avenue-lasry-idUSBRE92H0MY20130318\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; As speculation mounts that Avenue Capital hedge fund co-founder Marc Lasry will be nominated as the next U.S. ambassador to France, his $12 billion firm has told investors it is naming its first chief investment officer, according to [&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-34441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441","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=34441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34442,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions\/34442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}