{"id":59286,"date":"2017-08-03T08:41:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59286"},"modified":"2017-08-03T08:41:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:41:02","slug":"cohodes-protege-to-raise-200-million-for-a-short-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/cohodes-protege-to-raise-200-million-for-a-short-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Cohodes Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 to Raise $200 Million for a Short Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) An eight-year rally in stocks that\u2019s punished contrarians who\u2019ve dared to bet against the market isn\u2019t deterring 26-year-old Fahmi Quadir from starting a short-selling hedge fund.   \u201cI\u2019ve seen the tail end of a bull market and it doesn\u2019t scare me,\u201d Quadir, a protege of noted short-seller Marc Cohodes, said in a phone interview. Her edge? Identifying frauds or accounting vulnerabilities that could cause a stock to lose more than 60 percent of its market value, she says.   Quadir, who expects to raise $200 million at her newly created Safkhet Capital and begin trading early next year, may face an uphill climb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-08-01\/cohodes-protege-to-raise-200-million-for-a-short-hedge-fund\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) An eight-year rally in stocks that\u2019s punished contrarians who\u2019ve dared to bet against the market isn\u2019t deterring 26-year-old Fahmi Quadir from starting a short-selling hedge fund. \u201cI\u2019ve seen the tail end of a bull market and it doesn\u2019t scare [&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-59286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59286","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=59286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59287,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59286\/revisions\/59287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}