{"id":46559,"date":"2015-02-20T07:27:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T12:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46559"},"modified":"2015-02-20T08:28:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:28:45","slug":"fired-bluecrest-portfolio-manager-sues-hedge-fund-for-1-3-million-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2015\/fired-bluecrest-portfolio-manager-sues-hedge-fund-for-1-3-million-bonus.html","title":{"rendered":"Fired BlueCrest Portfolio Manager Sues Hedge Fund For $1.3 Million Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; A former portfolio manager at BlueCrest Capital Management has sued the big European hedge fund for failing to pay him a $1.28 million bonus for less than half a year of work in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas O\u2019Grady was fired by BlueCrest Capital Management in June 2014 without cause, according to the complaint O\u2019Grady filed in Manhattan\u2019s New York state court this week. An energy trader who previously worked at SAC Capital Advisors, O\u2019Grady claims he generated $8.625 million of profit in five months last year for BlueCrest, the hedge fund that manages some $15 billion and is run by billionaire Michael Platt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nathanvardi\/2015\/02\/19\/fired-bluecrest-portfolio-manager-sues-hedge-fund-for-1-3-million-bonus\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; A former portfolio manager at BlueCrest Capital Management has sued the big European hedge fund for failing to pay him a $1.28 million bonus for less than half a year of work in 2014. Nicholas O\u2019Grady was fired [&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-46559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46559","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=46559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46561,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46559\/revisions\/46561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}