{"id":53482,"date":"2016-07-15T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53482"},"modified":"2016-07-15T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T14:08:26","slug":"alibaba-soros-family-office-alums-team-up-on-new-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2016\/alibaba-soros-family-office-alums-team-up-on-new-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba, Soros Family Office Alums Team Up On New Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(TheStreet.com) A hedge fund manager with close ties to Alibaba chairman Joseph Tsai hopes to add a little George Soros magic, teaming with two partners from the Soros family office to form a new management firm. <\/p>\n<p>Dubbed Old Farm Partners, the New York-based firm was co-founded earlier this year by John Barry Purcell, the former chief operating officer of Tsai&#8217;s  Blue Pool Capital. Joining Purcell are partners Kieran Cavanna and Nishi Shah, both most recently of George Soros&#8217; family investing office, Soros Fund Management. <\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong-based Blue Pool, controlled by Tsai, reputedly also manages the funds of other Alibaba Holdings ( BABA) founders. Alibaba co-founder and CEO Jack Ma is worth more than $33 billion. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/13634681\/1\/alibaba-soros-family-office-alums-team-up-on-new-hedge-fund.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TheStreet.com) A hedge fund manager with close ties to Alibaba chairman Joseph Tsai hopes to add a little George Soros magic, teaming with two partners from the Soros family office to form a new management firm. Dubbed Old Farm Partners, [&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-53482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53482","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=53482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53483,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53482\/revisions\/53483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}