{"id":7916,"date":"2008-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"trs-official-may-leave-for-fund-of-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2008\/trs-official-may-leave-for-fund-of-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"TRS Official May Leave For Fund Of Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FINalternatives- An Illinois pension fund official caught up in the trial of a prominent supporter of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) may be joining a new hedge fund.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Bauman, executive director of the $38.7 billion Teachers&rsquo; Retirement System of Illinois, is mulling a departure to join Abraham Lincoln Alternative Investments, which is set to launch its first fund of hedge funds in August. But Bauman sounds far from certain he&rsquo;ll be leaving TRS, and the pension fund says he&rsquo;ll be staying put for at least another year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The long and short of it is, I&rsquo;m not ready to pull the trigger yet,&rdquo; Bauman told <em>Crain&rsquo;s Chicago Business<\/em>. &ldquo;There are considerations on both the TRS and Abraham Lincoln sides of the situation that need to be worked out before I would resign this position and make the move over.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.finalternatives.com\/node\/4649\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FINalternatives- An Illinois pension fund official caught up in the trial of a prominent supporter of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) may be joining a new hedge fund. Jon Bauman, executive director of the $38.7 billion Teachers&rsquo; Retirement System of Illinois, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67,932,930,315,95,92,931],"class_list":["post-7916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-chief-executive","tag-current-trends","tag-federal-election-commission","tag-fund-specialist","tag-merrill","tag-self-regulation","tag-waco-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916","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=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}