{"id":70424,"date":"2019-08-07T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=70424"},"modified":"2019-08-09T02:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T06:33:53","slug":"hedge-fund-investor-tarrant-who-bet-with-warren-buffett-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2019\/hedge-fund-investor-tarrant-who-bet-with-warren-buffett-dies.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund investor Tarrant, who bet with Warren Buffett, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Investor Jeffrey Tarrant, whose firm Protege Partners backed billionaire managers including William Ackman and Marc Lasry early in their careers and made a bet with Warren Buffett that hedge funds would outperform a passive index fund, has died at age 63. Tarrant died on Aug. 5 at his home in Bridgehampton, New York, his firm said, giving the cause of death as brain cancer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hedgefunds-tarrant\/hedge-fund-investor-tarrant-who-bet-with-warren-buffett-dies-idUSKCN1UX20H\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Investor Jeffrey Tarrant, whose firm Protege Partners backed billionaire managers including William Ackman and Marc Lasry early in their careers and made a bet with Warren Buffett that hedge funds would outperform a passive index fund, has died [&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-70424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70424","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=70424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70425,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70424\/revisions\/70425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}