{"id":7945,"date":"2008-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"former-pimco-manager-to-launch-new-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2008\/former-pimco-manager-to-launch-new-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Pimco Manager to Launch New Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Former Pacific Investment Management Co. portfolio manager John Brynjolfsson is rumored to be starting his own hedge fund in the near future. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Solberg of Viking Asset Management will team up with Brynjolfsson to run Armored Wolf LLC, which will &ldquo;vary weightings among real asset sectors and securities based on a top-down assessment of the investing environment,&rdquo; according to the firm&rsquo;s website. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to venturing out on his own, Brynjolfsson managed the $14.4 billion Commodity Real Return Strategy Fund at Pimco and has been with the firm since 1989.&nbsp; The Commodity Real Return Strategy Fund employed swap agreements to gain exposure to changes in a broad index of commodity futures prices, using portfolio assets as collateral.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Brynjolfsson also ran the firm&rsquo;s $15.5 billion Real Return Fund.&nbsp; Both funds saw impressive gains in 2007 during a year when many hedge funds were suffering. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Julie Scuderi<br \/>Senior Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: julie@hedgeco.net<\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>Be sure to check out our sister sites. For more information, visit www.hedgeconetworks.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Former Pacific Investment Management Co. portfolio manager John Brynjolfsson is rumored to be starting his own hedge fund in the near future. &nbsp; Ronald Solberg of Viking Asset Management will team up with Brynjolfsson to run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[532,508,303,879,110,1015,693,1014,648,624,1013],"class_list":["post-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-launches","category-hedgeco-news","tag-april-29","tag-bad-news","tag-brokerages","tag-dubai","tag-due-diligence-service","tag-extra-security","tag-good-managers","tag-haircut","tag-industry-group","tag-latin-america","tag-structured-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","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=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}