{"id":46557,"date":"2015-02-20T07:26:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T12:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46557"},"modified":"2015-02-20T08:27:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:27:39","slug":"a-former-hedge-fund-manager-is-running-a-fantasy-sports-combine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2015\/a-former-hedge-fund-manager-is-running-a-fantasy-sports-combine.html","title":{"rendered":"A Former Hedge Fund Manager Is Running a Fantasy Sports Combine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A former hedge fund manager who served a four-month prison term for insider trading is the driving force behind the first Fantasy Sports Combine in Las Vegas, a three-day event where players can be tutored by the industry\u2019s top analysts, former athletes and championship-winning coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy sports has grown into a $3.6 billion industry, with increasingly popular daily-play games joining the traditional season-long formats. Drew \u201cBo\u201d Brownstein, whose Denver-based hedge fund Big Five Asset Management was shut down in 2011, came up with the idea for the convention last year. Guest speakers include Super Bowl-winning former coaches Mike Ditka and Mike Shanahan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-02-19\/ex-hedge-fund-manager-runs-fantasy-sports-version-of-nfl-combine\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A former hedge fund manager who served a four-month prison term for insider trading is the driving force behind the first Fantasy Sports Combine in Las Vegas, a three-day event where players can be tutored by the industry\u2019s [&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-46557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46557","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=46557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46558,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46557\/revisions\/46558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}