{"id":60793,"date":"2017-11-08T08:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=60793"},"modified":"2017-11-08T08:51:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:51:20","slug":"trump-backer-mercer-was-reportedly-pushed-out-of-secretive-hedge-funds-leadership-by-the-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2017\/trump-backer-mercer-was-reportedly-pushed-out-of-secretive-hedge-funds-leadership-by-the-founder.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump Backer Mercer Was Reportedly Pushed Out of Secretive Hedge Fund&#8217;s Leadership By The Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons urged Robert Mercer to step down as co-chief executive because of concerns about Mercer&#8217;s backing of Breitbart News, Bloomberg News reports. Simons was concerned that Mercer&#8217;s backing of the right-wing website was hurting morale at the world&#8217;s most profitable hedge fund, the report says. Mercer sent a letter to investors on Thursday announcing he is stepping down as co-chief executive and from the board.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/11\/07\/mercer-reportedly-pushed-out-of-renaissance-by-simons.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons urged Robert Mercer to step down as co-chief executive because of concerns about Mercer&#8217;s backing of Breitbart News, Bloomberg News reports. Simons was concerned that Mercer&#8217;s backing of the right-wing website was hurting morale [&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-60793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60793","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=60793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60794,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60793\/revisions\/60794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}