{"id":49476,"date":"2015-08-05T08:36:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T12:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=49476"},"modified":"2015-08-05T08:36:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T12:36:06","slug":"scott-bessent-to-start-his-own-hedge-fund-with-2-billion-from-soros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2015\/scott-bessent-to-start-his-own-hedge-fund-with-2-billion-from-soros.html","title":{"rendered":"Scott Bessent to Start His Own Hedge Fund With $2 Billion From Soros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8211; Scott Bessent, who\u2019s been overseeing George Soros\u2019s $30 billion fortune for the last four years, will leave at the end of 2015 to start his own hedge-fund firm.<\/p>\n<p>Bessent, 52, is forming Key Square Group with a $2 billion investment from Soros, according to a memo sent to employees of Soros Fund Management. That will make his firm one of the largest hedge-fund start-ups ever, even before he begins raising money from other investors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-08-04\/scott-bessent-to-start-own-hedge-fund-with-2-billion-from-soros?cmpid=yhoo\">Click here <\/a>to read the entire article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8211; Scott Bessent, who\u2019s been overseeing George Soros\u2019s $30 billion fortune for the last four years, will leave at the end of 2015 to start his own hedge-fund firm. Bessent, 52, is forming Key Square Group with a $2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,5047,16208,16207],"class_list":["post-49476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bloomberg","tag-george-soros","tag-key-square-group","tag-scott-bessent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49476","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49477,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49476\/revisions\/49477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}