{"id":7584,"date":"2008-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"superstar-dude-walks-away-from-263m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/superstar-dude-walks-away-from-263m.html","title":{"rendered":"Superstar &#8216;dude&#8217; walks away from $263m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The Austrailan- SUPER-CONFIDENT Australian investment manager Greg Coffey has walked away from a lump sum of $US250 million ($263 million) in share options and other tied-up benefits by quitting his job at a London hedge fund to start his own business.<\/p>\n<p>In a dazzling punt on his own money-making potential, the 36-year-old finance star is leaving the quarter-billion-dollar benefits on the table at the GLG Partners hedge fund because he believes he can earn more by setting up his own fund. <\/p>\n<p>And there is a good chance he will be proved right. <\/p>\n<p>Industry analysts in London said they expected loyal clients with investments worth billions of dollars to follow Mr Coffey. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,23589721-20142,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austrailan- SUPER-CONFIDENT Australian investment manager Greg Coffey has walked away from a lump sum of $US250 million ($263 million) in share options and other tied-up benefits by quitting his job at a London hedge fund to start his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}