{"id":36652,"date":"2013-07-11T09:44:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36652"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:44:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:44:12","slug":"property-crushes-hedge-funds-in-alternative-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2013\/property-crushes-hedge-funds-in-alternative-markets.html","title":{"rendered":"Property Crushes Hedge Funds in Alternative Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hamilton \u201cTony\u201d James looked up from his notes and peered out at the audience over the rims of his glasses. The investors seated in the chandelier-adorned meeting room of\u00a0New York\u2019s Waldorf-Astoria hotel had been in their chairs for hours. Yet James paused to let his point sink in. Someone laughed. James, president since 2005 of\u00a0Blackstone Group LP (BX), was stone-faced.<\/p>\n<p>The occasion was Blackstone\u2019s third annual investor day, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its August issue. The firm is the world\u2019s largest manager of so-called alternative investments, with $218 billion under management. It runs private-equity funds and\u00a0hedge funds, invests heavily in credit securities and owns vast expanses of real estate. One of its properties is the Waldorf itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-07-10\/property-crushes-hedge-funds-in-alternative-markets.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hamilton \u201cTony\u201d James looked up from his notes and peered out at the audience over the rims of his glasses. The investors seated in the chandelier-adorned meeting room of\u00a0New York\u2019s Waldorf-Astoria hotel had been in their chairs for [&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-36652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652","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=36652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36653,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36652\/revisions\/36653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}