{"id":5266,"date":"2006-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"shankman-ex-enron-executive-to-start-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2006\/shankman-ex-enron-executive-to-start-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Shankman, Ex-Enron Executive, to Start Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Jeff Shankman, the former chief operating officer of global markets at Enron Corp., plans to raise as much as $250 million in the next six months for an energy hedge fund,  according to two investors who received marketing documents on the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>  Trident Asset Management, based in Dallas, was founded this year by Shankman and Andy Weathers, a former trader at CenterPoint Energy Inc., and will start trading this month, said the investors,  who declined to be identified because details are still confidential. Shankman didn&#8217;t return messages left requesting comment. Weathers declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>  A four-year rally in prices for raw materials has spurred investment in commodity-trading hedge funds, which oversee $22.5 billion globally, up from $12 billion a year ago, according to  London-based NewFinance Capital LLP, which invests in such funds.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=  \"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/2-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news%3Fpid%3D20601087%26sid%3Dah6xmroFxKh8%26refer%3Dhome&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=U5JURdvSL4_MpwLKyaX4DQ\">  <strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Jeff Shankman, the former chief operating officer of global markets at Enron Corp., plans to raise as much as $250 million in the next six months for an energy hedge fund, according to two investors who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5266","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=5266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}