{"id":41705,"date":"2014-04-23T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41705"},"modified":"2014-04-23T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T12:22:27","slug":"alex-porter-hedge-fund-founder-from-a-w-jones-era-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2014\/alex-porter-hedge-fund-founder-from-a-w-jones-era-dies-at-75.html","title":{"rendered":"Alex Porter, Hedge Fund Founder From A.W. Jones Era, Dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A. Alex Porter, who applied the lessons he learned at the first hedge fund, A.W. Jones &amp; Co., as a founder of what today is Amici Capital LLC, has died. He was 75.<\/p>\n<p>He died on April 18 at his farm in Davidson, North Carolina, according to his niece, Elizabeth Boehmler. The cause was\u00a0colon cancer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-04-22\/alex-porter-hedge-fund-founder-from-a-w-jones-era-dies-at-75.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A. Alex Porter, who applied the lessons he learned at the first hedge fund, A.W. Jones &amp; Co., as a founder of what today is Amici Capital LLC, has died. He was 75. He died on April 18 [&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-41705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41705","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=41705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41706,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41705\/revisions\/41706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}