{"id":47239,"date":"2015-03-31T08:14:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47239"},"modified":"2015-03-31T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:14:51","slug":"the-economist-explains-how-hedge-funds-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2015\/the-economist-explains-how-hedge-funds-work.html","title":{"rendered":"The Economist explains: How hedge funds work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist &#8211; In Febuary it emerged that nearly half of the richest hedge-fund managers in Britain have donated a total of \u00a310m ($14.8m) to the Conservative party since 2010. Labour, the opposition party, has accused the Tories of dishing out favours, such as a tax loophole, to their \u201chedge-fund friends\u201d. Earlier this month it turned out that Labour too has relied on at least one very generous hedge-fund friend who has given the party nearly \u00a3600,000 since 2012. Hedge-fund managers are renowned for their investment skills and their wealth. But how do these \u201cmasters of the universe\u201d, and the funds they control, really operate?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2015\/03\/economist-explains-16\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist &#8211; In Febuary it emerged that nearly half of the richest hedge-fund managers in Britain have donated a total of \u00a310m ($14.8m) to the Conservative party since 2010. Labour, the opposition party, has accused the Tories of dishing [&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-47239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47239","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=47239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47241,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47239\/revisions\/47241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}