{"id":36128,"date":"2013-06-13T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T13:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36128"},"modified":"2013-06-13T09:24:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T13:24:02","slug":"governments-hedge-fund-adviser-profits-from-the-rise-and-fall-of-rbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2013\/governments-hedge-fund-adviser-profits-from-the-rise-and-fall-of-rbs.html","title":{"rendered":"Government&#8217;s hedge fund adviser profits from the rise and fall of RBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; There is a certain irony in financier Davide Serra advising the Government on improving \u201cviability\u201d at RBS. Serra was in the cabal of hedge funds that gobbled up shares in ABN Amro in the run-up to the acquisition of the Dutch bank that led to RBS\u2019s downfall.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian financier attended ABN\u2019s annual meeting in 2007, where he stated his preference for the consortium bid, led by RBS, over Barclays\u2019 rival offer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/comment\/citydiary\/10116862\/City-Diary-Governments-hedge-fund-adviser-profits-from-the-rise-and-fall-of-RBS.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; There is a certain irony in financier Davide Serra advising the Government on improving \u201cviability\u201d at RBS. Serra was in the cabal of hedge funds that gobbled up shares in ABN Amro in the run-up to the acquisition [&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-36128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36128","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=36128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36130,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36128\/revisions\/36130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}