{"id":53324,"date":"2016-07-05T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53324"},"modified":"2016-07-05T07:41:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T11:41:58","slug":"ackmans-pershing-square-hedge-fund-axes-eight-staffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2016\/ackmans-pershing-square-hedge-fund-axes-eight-staffers.html","title":{"rendered":"Ackman&#8217;s Pershing Square Hedge Fund Axes Eight Staffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Investing.com) This year has been difficult for the firm with the Pershing Square International Fund losing 17.29 percent since January, making it one of the industry&#8217;s worst performers this year. Last year the fund dropped 16.6 percent, largely due to Ackman&#8217;s bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals whose share price has tumbled 90 percent in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investing.com\/news\/stock-market-news\/ackman's-pershing-square-hedge-fund-cuts-eight-staffers-412015\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Investing.com) This year has been difficult for the firm with the Pershing Square International Fund losing 17.29 percent since January, making it one of the industry&#8217;s worst performers this year. Last year the fund dropped 16.6 percent, largely due to [&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-53324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53324","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=53324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53325,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53324\/revisions\/53325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}