{"id":44419,"date":"2014-10-08T06:48:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44419"},"modified":"2014-10-08T06:50:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:50:26","slug":"the-hedge-fund-winner-who-went-to-juilliard-bruce-kovners-arts-philanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2014\/the-hedge-fund-winner-who-went-to-juilliard-bruce-kovners-arts-philanthropy.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hedge Fund Winner Who Went to Juilliard: Bruce Kovner&#8217;s Arts Philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Philanthropy &#8211; Bruce Kovner founded and ran one of the most successful hedge funds in the country, Caxton Associates, from 1983 until his recent retirement. Now, he&#8217;s worth $5 billion and has more time on his hands for philanthropy. Which is why we&#8217;ve been paying attention to this guy lately.<\/p>\n<p>The son of a trade unionist, Kovner went to Harvard, holds conservative views, and was once dubbed &#8220;George Soros&#8217; Right Wing Twin.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a little trivia for you: Kovner&#8217;s firm Caxton is named after the first printer of books in the English language.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidephilanthropy.com\/home\/2014\/10\/8\/the-hedge-fund-winner-who-went-to-juilliard-bruce-kovners-ar.html#\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Philanthropy &#8211; Bruce Kovner founded and ran one of the most successful hedge funds in the country, Caxton Associates, from 1983 until his recent retirement. Now, he&#8217;s worth $5 billion and has more time on his hands for philanthropy. [&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-44419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419","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=44419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44423,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419\/revisions\/44423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}