{"id":45981,"date":"2015-01-19T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45981"},"modified":"2015-01-19T08:37:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:37:25","slug":"battered-hedge-fund-billionaire-john-paulson-adds-to-merger-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2015\/battered-hedge-fund-billionaire-john-paulson-adds-to-merger-bets.html","title":{"rendered":"Battered Hedge Fund Billionaire John Paulson Adds To Merger Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Billionaire John Paulson received a lot of press for a 36% drop in his Advantage Plus fund last year as assets at Paulson &amp; Co. fell below $20 billion. But investors continue to look at the hedge fund manager as a way to bet on rising merger and acquisition activity globally, as companies scale their operations and take advantage of record-low financing costs.<\/p>\n<p>Paulson &amp; Co. saw billions of dollars in net inflows to its largest and longest-standing strategy, merger arbitrage, where performance was roughly flat in spite of legal decisions that hammered some of the firm\u2019s largest positions. The hedge fund entered 2014 with $7 billion dedicated to its merger arbitrage strategy. By the end of the year, assets were $9.2 billion, according to two sources familiar with the matter, even as performance was uninspiring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/antoinegara\/2015\/01\/17\/battered-hedge-fund-billionaire-john-paulson-adds-to-merger-bets\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Billionaire John Paulson received a lot of press for a 36% drop in his Advantage Plus fund last year as assets at Paulson &amp; Co. fell below $20 billion. But investors continue to look at the hedge fund [&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-45981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45981","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=45981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45982,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45981\/revisions\/45982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}