{"id":47541,"date":"2015-04-16T07:44:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T11:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47541"},"modified":"2015-04-16T07:44:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T11:44:54","slug":"hedge-funder-quits-to-seek-more-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2015\/hedge-funder-quits-to-seek-more-in-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funder quits to seek &#8216;more&#8217; in life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; Like some who work in finance, Forrest Xiao wasn&#8217;t fulfilled despite making a lot of money. But unlike many frustrated employees, the 25-year-old New York-area hedge fund employee decided to make a big change: He quit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve become more and more obsessed with making money, in part because I&#8217;ve used it as a measure of myself,&#8221; Xiao wrote in a farewell email to AQR Capital Management colleagues in March, as first reported by hedge fund news site Absolute Return. &#8220;I worry that I&#8217;ve lost the sense of purpose that I once felt, the desire to help the world in some meaningful way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/102588928\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; Like some who work in finance, Forrest Xiao wasn&#8217;t fulfilled despite making a lot of money. But unlike many frustrated employees, the 25-year-old New York-area hedge fund employee decided to make a big change: He quit. &#8220;I&#8217;ve become [&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-47541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47541","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=47541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47543,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47541\/revisions\/47543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}