{"id":42807,"date":"2014-06-30T06:55:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T10:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42807"},"modified":"2014-06-30T06:55:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T10:55:51","slug":"ex-sac-capital-coo-kumin-to-start-hedge-fund-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2014\/ex-sac-capital-coo-kumin-to-start-hedge-fund-firm.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-SAC Capital COO Kumin to Start Hedge-Fund Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former senior executive of SAC Capital Advisors LP is planning to start a new stock-trading hedge-fund firm, potentially with a big chunk of funding from Leucadia National Corp., according to people familiar with deal discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon &#8220;Sol&#8221; Kumin, who was SAC&#8217;s chief operating officer, is in advanced talks over a deal with Leucadia that would make the company Mr. Kumin&#8217;s biggest investor and owner of a substantial portion of his firm, the people said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/ex-sac-capital-coo-kumin-to-start-hedge-fund-firm-1403918593\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former senior executive of SAC Capital Advisors LP is planning to start a new stock-trading hedge-fund firm, potentially with a big chunk of funding from Leucadia National Corp., according to people familiar with deal discussions. Solomon &#8220;Sol&#8221; Kumin, who [&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-42807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42807","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=42807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42808,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42807\/revisions\/42808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}