{"id":46188,"date":"2015-01-28T07:36:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46188"},"modified":"2015-01-28T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:36:28","slug":"hedge-funds-private-equity-win-big-at-tarp-auctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2015\/hedge-funds-private-equity-win-big-at-tarp-auctions.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds, Private Equity Win Big at TARP Auctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; A government program to rid itself of TARP investments in small banks has proved a boon to hedge funds, private-equity and other private investors, according to a new watchdog report.<\/p>\n<p>As the Treasury Department looks to exit from its taxpayer-backed investments in these lenders, private investors like hedge funds and others have stepped in and scooped up about 70% of the shares auctioned by the U.S. government. Other buyers included banks, institutional investors and brokers buying shares on behalf of other entities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/hedge-funds-private-equity-win-big-at-tarp-auctions-1422421201\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; A government program to rid itself of TARP investments in small banks has proved a boon to hedge funds, private-equity and other private investors, according to a new watchdog report. As the Treasury Department looks to exit from [&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-46188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46188","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=46188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46191,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46188\/revisions\/46191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}