{"id":56472,"date":"2017-02-07T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56472"},"modified":"2017-02-07T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:55:51","slug":"meet-the-ex-banker-using-ethereum-to-take-on-traditional-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2017\/meet-the-ex-banker-using-ethereum-to-take-on-traditional-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Ex-Banker Using Ethereum to Take On Traditional Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Coin Desk) In the world of hedge funds, the old adage really is true: you have to have money to make money.The barrier to entry for an individual investor is frequently $500,000, with portfolio managers themselves needing as much as $200m just to get started. But the potential rewards are equally large.<\/p>\n<p>It was a tough lesson to learn for Mona El Isa, a former Goldman Sachs vice president, who after being selected as a member of Forbes 30 Under 30 and raising $30m for her own fund, found herself surprisingly under-prepared to compete against other much more heavily capitalized firms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/meet-the-ex-banker-using-ethereum-to-take-on-traditional-hedge-funds\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Coin Desk) In the world of hedge funds, the old adage really is true: you have to have money to make money.The barrier to entry for an individual investor is frequently $500,000, with portfolio managers themselves needing as much as [&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-56472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56472","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=56472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56473,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56472\/revisions\/56473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}