{"id":67981,"date":"2019-02-13T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T14:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67981"},"modified":"2019-02-15T01:38:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T06:38:53","slug":"blackstone-to-back-ex-eton-park-partner-with-150-million-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2019\/blackstone-to-back-ex-eton-park-partner-with-150-million-seed.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone to Back ex-Eton Park Partner with $150 Million Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Blackstone Group LP is backing a new hedge fund being run by former Eton Park partner Aaron Wertentheil with a $150 million commitment, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Wertentheil is launching Jones Road Capital Management with roughly $300 million in assets, including the capital from Blackstone, plus money from Eric Mindich, his former boss at Eton Park, and an unidentified endowment, said one of the sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-blackstone-group-jonesroad\/blackstone-to-back-ex-eton-park-partner-with-150-million-seed-idUSKCN1Q12K0\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Blackstone Group LP is backing a new hedge fund being run by former Eton Park partner Aaron Wertentheil with a $150 million commitment, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Wertentheil is launching Jones Road Capital Management [&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-67981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67981","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=67981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67982,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67981\/revisions\/67982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}