{"id":59207,"date":"2017-07-28T09:19:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59207"},"modified":"2017-07-28T09:19:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:19:51","slug":"ex-harvard-star-meyer-is-said-to-cut-jobs-as-firm-bleeds-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2017\/ex-harvard-star-meyer-is-said-to-cut-jobs-as-firm-bleeds-assets.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Harvard Star Meyer Is Said to Cut Jobs as Firm Bleeds Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Jack Meyer, the investor who built a multibillion-dollar hedge fund firm after more than quadrupling Harvard University\u2019s endowment, cut his workforce this year as assets declined, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.   Convexity Capital Management eliminated 15 information-technology positions in the first half after dismissing 10 back-office staffers in 2016, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. The company now has 67 employees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-07-27\/ex-harvard-star-meyer-is-said-to-cut-jobs-as-firm-bleeds-assets\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Jack Meyer, the investor who built a multibillion-dollar hedge fund firm after more than quadrupling Harvard University\u2019s endowment, cut his workforce this year as assets declined, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Convexity Capital Management eliminated [&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-59207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59207","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=59207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59208,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59207\/revisions\/59208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}