{"id":47121,"date":"2015-03-25T07:25:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T11:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47121"},"modified":"2015-03-25T08:58:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T12:58:05","slug":"former-federal-reserve-governor-joins-ny-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2015\/former-federal-reserve-governor-joins-ny-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Federal Reserve Governor Joins NY Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-45387\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/images.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"231\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Former Federal Reserve governor Jeremy C. Stein has agreed to consult at $20 billion hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management, the Wall Street Journal reports. Stein is also a Harvard economics professor.<\/p>\n<p>The WSJ says: &#8220;Hedge funds, and alternative-investment firms more generally, have been attractive destinations for exiting government officials. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and ex-Reagan economic adviser Martin Feldstein accepted paid roles on a now-disbanded economic advisory board at John Paulson\u2019s hedge-fund firm that started in 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stein will advise BlueMountain on a range of issues, including implications of monetary and macroprudential policies, financial regulation and market evolution, and risk and capital management.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to be working with the BlueMountain team,&#8221; said Professor Stein. &#8220;They are at the cutting edge with respect to the development of both investment strategies and risk management tools, and I look forward to learning much more about the markets from my collaboration with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very lucky to have the opportunity to work with Jeremy,&#8221; said Andrew Feldstein, CEO of BlueMountain. &#8220;He has been widely recognized by leaders in government, academia and the private sector for his talent and impact. His experience, research interests, and intellect will add real value to BlueMountain&#8217;s investors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Former Federal Reserve governor Jeremy C. Stein has agreed to consult at $20 billion hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management, the Wall Street Journal reports. Stein is also a Harvard economics professor. The WSJ says: &#8220;Hedge funds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,16020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-regulation","category-hedgeco-news","category-people-moves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47121","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=47121"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47137,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47121\/revisions\/47137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}