{"id":35191,"date":"2013-05-02T08:34:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=35191"},"modified":"2013-05-02T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:34:27","slug":"the-lucrative-investment-trend-hedge-funds-dont-want-you-to-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2013\/the-lucrative-investment-trend-hedge-funds-dont-want-you-to-know-about.html","title":{"rendered":"The lucrative investment trend hedge funds don&#8217;t want you to know about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN &#8211; Hedge fund executives who descended on Miami last month for a conference on unpaid property taxes were treated to waterfront cruises of estates owned by Madonna, Shaquille O&#8217;Neal, and Elizabeth Taylor. But unlike those celebrity residences, the houses the profit-chasing investors were hunting at the gathering have a prosaic facade: tax liens.<\/p>\n<p>Far from the mansions of Greenwich, Conn., houses owned by homeowners struggling with delinquent property-tax bills are sparking a gold rush by the elite money pools. Leading the recent lien-buying surge is Fortress Investment Group, the $53 billion alternative investments company now working with former executives who drove J.P. Morgan&#8217;s prior rush into the business from\u00a02008 through mid-2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.fortune.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/01\/tax-liens-hedge-funds\/?section=money_topstories&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+(Top+Stories)\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN &#8211; Hedge fund executives who descended on Miami last month for a conference on unpaid property taxes were treated to waterfront cruises of estates owned by Madonna, Shaquille O&#8217;Neal, and Elizabeth Taylor. But unlike those celebrity residences, the houses [&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-35191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191","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=35191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35192,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191\/revisions\/35192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}