{"id":35369,"date":"2013-05-09T07:39:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=35369"},"modified":"2013-05-09T07:39:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:39:30","slug":"the-things-you-see-at-a-las-vegas-hedge-fund-confab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2013\/the-things-you-see-at-a-las-vegas-hedge-fund-confab.html","title":{"rendered":"The Things You See at a Las Vegas Hedge Fund Confab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Magazine &#8211; At the Bellagio in Las Vegas today, there are some pretend gamblers \u2014 people betting tiny sums on hands of blackjack and poker and plugging nickels into slot machines. And then, in the conference center just off the main casino, there are the real gamblers \u2014 hundreds of hedge fund workers, all dressed in suits and ties and ready to talk about throwing billions of dollars around the global markets.<\/p>\n<p>This is SALT \u2014 properly known as the\u00a0SkyBridge Alternatives Conference\u00a0\u2014 an annual confab of hedge fund industry workers thrown in Vegas by Anthony Scaramucci, a garrulous hedge fund booster who was\u00a0described\u00a0by our own Jessica Pressler as &#8220;a petite man-shaped fireball of energy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/05\/photos-las-vegas-hedge-fund-confab.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Magazine &#8211; At the Bellagio in Las Vegas today, there are some pretend gamblers \u2014 people betting tiny sums on hands of blackjack and poker and plugging nickels into slot machines. And then, in the conference center just off [&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-35369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35369","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=35369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35374,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35369\/revisions\/35374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}