{"id":3670,"date":"2005-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"blackstone-eyes-hedge-fund-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2005\/blackstone-eyes-hedge-fund-move.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone eyes hedge fund move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  MSNBC &#8211; Blackstone, the world&#8217;s largest independent alternative asset manager, is planning an aggressive move into hedge funds, where it believes it can be a significant force with potentially  $10bn under management.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;The first brick is in place,&#8221; Tony James, Blackstone president, said of the group&#8217;s $500m distressed debt fund, launched earlier this year. &#8220;We are working on the second.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  He said the group planned to build a &#8220;flagship fund&#8221; that would be a central plank of its hedge fund strategy. That fund is likely be long\/short equity or multi-strategy.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10286175\/\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC &#8211; Blackstone, the world&#8217;s largest independent alternative asset manager, is planning an aggressive move into hedge funds, where it believes it can be a significant force with potentially $10bn under management. &#8220;The first brick is in place,&#8221; Tony James, [&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-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","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=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}