{"id":51601,"date":"2016-02-17T10:11:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T15:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51601"},"modified":"2016-02-17T10:11:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T15:11:39","slug":"soros-fund-management-takes-stake-in-consumer-lender-synchrony-financial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2016\/soros-fund-management-takes-stake-in-consumer-lender-synchrony-financial.html","title":{"rendered":"Soros Fund Management Takes Stake in Consumer Lender Synchrony Financial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Soros Fund Management, the team investing billionaire George Soros&#8217; fortune, is betting big on consumer finance by taking a large position in Synchrony Financial, according to a U.S. securities filing on Tuesday.Soros now owns more than 7.1 million shares, its second-largest public stock position after Luxembourg-based agricultural company Adecoagro SA. The estimated value of the stake in Synchrony is $216.7 million, according to the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which details public stock holdings on Dec. 31, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/investment-funds-soros-idUSL2N15V25G\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Soros Fund Management, the team investing billionaire George Soros&#8217; fortune, is betting big on consumer finance by taking a large position in Synchrony Financial, according to a U.S. securities filing on Tuesday.Soros now owns more than 7.1 million shares, [&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-51601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51601","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=51601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51602,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51601\/revisions\/51602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}