{"id":62563,"date":"2018-03-02T00:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T05:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62563"},"modified":"2018-03-02T00:17:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T05:17:22","slug":"viking-hedge-fund-moves-into-big-data-following-other-tiger-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2018\/viking-hedge-fund-moves-into-big-data-following-other-tiger-cubs.html","title":{"rendered":"Viking Hedge Fund Moves Into Big Data Following Other Tiger Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Andreas Halvorsen, who heads one of the largest and oldest equity-hedge funds, is stepping into the world of big data. The $25 billion Viking Global Investors has hired a small team to build a big-data platform, according to a person familiar with the firm. The engineers, analysts and platform architects are collecting and cleaning alternative information sets to help inform Viking\u2019s portfolio managers and analysts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-02-28\/viking-hedge-fund-moves-into-big-data-following-other-tiger-cubs\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Andreas Halvorsen, who heads one of the largest and oldest equity-hedge funds, is stepping into the world of big data. The $25 billion Viking Global Investors has hired a small team to build a big-data platform, according to a [&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-62563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62563","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=62563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62564,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62563\/revisions\/62564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}