{"id":65877,"date":"2018-09-24T00:08:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T04:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65877"},"modified":"2018-09-26T01:32:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T05:32:53","slug":"ex-glg-manager-shuts-hedge-fund-after-struggling-to-raise-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2018\/ex-glg-manager-shuts-hedge-fund-after-struggling-to-raise-money.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-GLG Manager Shuts Hedge Fund After Struggling to Raise Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Karim Abdel-Motaal is closing his macro hedge fund after just over a year because he couldn\u2019t raise enough money, underscoring how difficult the market has become for startups. The London-based money manager, who previously led emerging-market hedge funds at Man Group Plc\u2019s GLG Partners unit, started the fund in June last year, investing globally with a focus on developing markets. The fund, part of his firm KAM Portfolio Management, returned about 5 percent before fees this year, outperforming peers which suffered losses. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-09-20\/former-glg-money-manager-shuts-macro-hedge-fund-after-one-year\">To read this article: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Karim Abdel-Motaal is closing his macro hedge fund after just over a year because he couldn\u2019t raise enough money, underscoring how difficult the market has become for startups. The London-based money manager, who previously led emerging-market hedge funds at [&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-65877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65877","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=65877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65878,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65877\/revisions\/65878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}