{"id":49850,"date":"2015-09-04T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T13:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=49850"},"modified":"2015-09-04T09:13:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T13:13:18","slug":"ackmans-pershing-square-hedge-fund-drops-9-2-percent-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2015\/ackmans-pershing-square-hedge-fund-drops-9-2-percent-in-august.html","title":{"rendered":"Ackman&#8217;s Pershing Square Hedge Fund Drops 9.2 Percent in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge fund mogul William Ackman, one of last year&#8217;s best performers, joined a string of high profile managers in reporting deep losses for August as global markets tumbled amid fears over slower growth in China. Ackman&#8217;s Pershing Square Capital Management, which makes concentrated bets on a small number of stocks, told clients on Wednesday that its Pershing Square LP fund fell 7.7 percent last month, leaving it flat on the year with a 0.06 percent gain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/09\/03\/hedgefunds-ackman-august-idUSL1N1182J020150903\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge fund mogul William Ackman, one of last year&#8217;s best performers, joined a string of high profile managers in reporting deep losses for August as global markets tumbled amid fears over slower growth in China. Ackman&#8217;s Pershing Square Capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49850","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49851,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49850\/revisions\/49851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}