{"id":3529,"date":"2005-10-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"uk-hedge-fund-trader-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2005\/uk-hedge-fund-trader-under-investigation.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Hedge Fund Trader Under Investigation &#8211; Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td>    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/images.forbes.com\/media\/assets\/spacer_white.gif\">    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>  Remember <em>The Bonfire of the Vanities<\/em>? We&#8217;re not talking about that time in 1497 when grumpy Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly torched a bundle of sinful objects in  Florence&#8211;such as cosmetics, mirrors and splendid dresses, but Tom Wolfe&#8217;s cynical satire of 1980s New York. Sherman McCoy, a gloriously arrogant investment banker, is the book&#8217;s cynosure; he is  one of our first&#8211;albeit fictional&#8211;hedge fund bods.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>GLG Partners<\/strong>, one of the U.K. capital&#8217;s biggest hedge funds, and <strong>Philippe Jabre<\/strong>, one of its heavyweight traders, are under investigation by the Financial Services  Authority&#8211;an independent body that regulates that country&#8217;s financial services industry, much like the U.S.&#8217; Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2005\/10\/27\/uk-hedge-fund-cx_cn_1027autofacescan06.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember The Bonfire of the Vanities? We&#8217;re not talking about that time in 1497 when grumpy Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly torched a bundle of sinful objects in Florence&#8211;such as cosmetics, mirrors and splendid dresses, but Tom Wolfe&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","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=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}