{"id":8020,"date":"2008-07-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"a-hedge-fund-managers-crusade-to-expose-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2008\/a-hedge-fund-managers-crusade-to-expose-losses.html","title":{"rendered":"A Hedge Fund Manager&#8217;s Crusade To Expose Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR News- The people who run hedge funds can be famously secretive about their work. Not David Einhorn. <\/p>\n<p>Einhorn founded Greenlight Capital, which manages about $6 billion in assets. He recently waged a very public battle against Lehman Brothers, claiming it was losing more money than it admitted. He turned out to be right. <\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s written a book, <em>Fooling Some of the People All of the Time,<\/em> about his six-year battle against another company, Allied Capital. Einhorn says the experience shows how the media and financial regulators can sometimes fail investors. <\/p>\n<p>Each May, hundreds of Wall Streeters show up at the Ira Sohn Investment Research Conference in New York&#8217;s Lincoln Center. They pay up to $3,200 each for the chance to hear advice from big investors like Carl Icahn and Wilbur Ross.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=92089101\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR News- The people who run hedge funds can be famously secretive about their work. Not David Einhorn. Einhorn founded Greenlight Capital, which manages about $6 billion in assets. He recently waged a very public battle against Lehman Brothers, claiming [&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":[1232,1233,96,129,83,773,1231,154,47,1234],"class_list":["post-8020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-federal-reserve-chairman","tag-landmark-lawsuit","tag-lehman-brothers-holdings","tag-losses","tag-medallion","tag-perfect-storm","tag-personal-interests","tag-sharkwatch","tag-third-party","tag-trs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020","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=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}