{"id":6267,"date":"2007-07-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"founder-of-hedge-fund-gave-230m-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2007\/founder-of-hedge-fund-gave-230m-to-charity.html","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Hedge Fund Gave \u00c2\u00a3230m to Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Telegraph- The founder of a highly successful City hedge fund has emerged as Britain&#8217;s most generous philanthropist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">  Chris Hohn, who established the Children&#8217;s Investment Fund more than five years ago, donated \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a3230 million to the hedge fund&#8217;s charitable arm last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">  The charity connected to the fund, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciff.org\/\" target=\"external\">Children&#8217;s Investment Fund Foundation<\/a>, works to alleviate child poverty in the developing world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">  It is run by Mr Hohn&#8217;s wife, Jamie, who has adopted the &#8220;venture philanthropy&#8221; model, pioneered by Robin Hood charity in New York, which was set up by the fund manager Paul Tudor Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">  Mrs Hohn, who does not take a salary, said: &#8220;I was very eager that if we did this we would do it very much in the way Chris invests, making long-term, well-researched investments, bringing business  rigour and a private sector approach into development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/07\/03\/nhedge103.xml\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Telegraph- The founder of a highly successful City hedge fund has emerged as Britain&#8217;s most generous philanthropist. Chris Hohn, who established the Children&#8217;s Investment Fund more than five years ago, donated \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a3230 million to the hedge fund&#8217;s charitable arm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}