{"id":62932,"date":"2018-03-25T02:18:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T06:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62932"},"modified":"2018-03-27T00:43:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T04:43:29","slug":"goldman-alumni-set-up-1bn-macro-fund-with-focus-on-commodities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2018\/goldman-alumni-set-up-1bn-macro-fund-with-focus-on-commodities.html","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Alumni Set Up $1bn Macro Fund With Focus on Commodities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Jonathan Goldberg, the founder of one of the world\u2019s largest energy-focused hedge funds BBL Commodities, is launching a new $1 billion macro fund with his former Goldman Sachs colleague Ben Jacobs that will trade currencies and equity indices based on commodities trends.  <\/p>\n<p>The new fund was launched in March and is in the process of raising $250 million from founders with the remaining fundraising expected to close by the end of the year. BBL Commodities itself currently has some $500 million to $600 million under management.   The new fund will be a rare beast in the market where commodities are often being traded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-commodities-fund\/goldman-alumni-set-up-1-billion-macro-fund-with-focus-on-commodities-idUSKBN1GY1MC\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Jonathan Goldberg, the founder of one of the world\u2019s largest energy-focused hedge funds BBL Commodities, is launching a new $1 billion macro fund with his former Goldman Sachs colleague Ben Jacobs that will trade currencies and equity indices based [&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-62932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62932","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=62932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62933,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62932\/revisions\/62933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}