{"id":67225,"date":"2018-12-24T14:59:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T19:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67225"},"modified":"2018-12-24T14:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T19:59:17","slug":"illinois-pension-official-who-jettisoned-hedge-funds-plans-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2018\/illinois-pension-official-who-jettisoned-hedge-funds-plans-to-resign.html","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Pension Official Who Jettisoned Hedge Funds Plans to Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Chicago Business) A former Illinois pension board chairman who successfully sought to have an $18 billion state pension fund eliminate hedge fund investments plans to resign soon. Former Illinois State Board of Investment Chairman Marc Levine, who led a pension fund charge against investing in hedge funds, plans to leave the board in a few weeks, after passing the baton to a new chairman last week.<\/p>\n<p>The ISBI said in a statement today that Illinois Appellate Judge Mary Seminara-Schostok was unanimously elected chairperson at a board meeting last week, becoming the first woman in that role. She has been a member of the board since 2013. (While the statement was issued today, it is dated Dec. 11, which is when the board meeting took place.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/finance-banking\/hedge-fund-rebel-leave-illinois-pension-board\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Chicago Business) A former Illinois pension board chairman who successfully sought to have an $18 billion state pension fund eliminate hedge fund investments plans to resign soon. Former Illinois State Board of Investment Chairman Marc Levine, who led a pension [&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-67225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67225","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=67225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67226,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67225\/revisions\/67226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}