{"id":5151,"date":"2006-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-billionaire-donate-19-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2006\/hedge-fund-billionaire-donate-19-million.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Billionaire Couple donate $19 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"writeboardbody\">  HedgeCo.Net (New York) &#8211; Kenneth C. Griffin, president and <span class=\"caps\">CEO<\/span> of Citadel Investment Group, one of the world\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s largest hedge funds and his wife Anne Dias Griffin, founder  of hedge fund Aragon Global Management, donated $19 million to the Art Institute of Chicago late last week.  <\/p>\n<p>    James Cuno, president of the Institute said the wing will be named the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cKenneth and Anne Griffin Court.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d The Modern Wing\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s central court, scheduled to open in 2009, is expected to cost $260    million.  <\/p>\n<p>    The Griffins have collections of modern art, and have been known to loan them out to museums and exhibitions.  <\/p>\n<p>    Citadel Investment Group is a $12 billion Chicago-based hedge fund. The alternative investment firm is known for its daily trading volume, which amounts to 1 to 2% of daily trading activity in    New York and Tokyo. Citadel was founded by Kenneth Griffin in 1990.  <\/p>\n<p>    Anne Dias Griffin is managing partner and founder of the firm Aragon Global Management, a long\/short hedge fund focusing on global equities.  <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">    Alex Akesson<br \/>    Contributing Writer<br \/>    HedgeCo.Net<br \/>    Email: <a href=\"mailto:Editor@hedgeco.net\">Editor@hedgeco.net<\/a>   <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">      HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge      Funds!    <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">        <strong>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>, <a href=        \"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\">www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\"><strong>www.hedgefundemployment.com.<\/strong><\/a>      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    &nbsp;  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.Net (New York) &#8211; Kenneth C. Griffin, president and CEO of Citadel Investment Group, one of the world\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s largest hedge funds and his wife Anne Dias Griffin, founder of hedge fund Aragon Global Management, donated $19 million to the Art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}