{"id":8200,"date":"2008-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"failed-sowood-hedge-fund-manager-raising-new-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2008\/failed-sowood-hedge-fund-manager-raising-new-money.html","title":{"rendered":"Failed Sowood hedge fund manager raising new money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- One year after Jeffrey Larson lost about $1.5 billion in one of the hedge fund industry&#8217;s most spectacular collapses, he is trying to raise fresh capital for a new fund, people familiar with his plans said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Larson is back and he has been calling virtually everyone in town, leaving no stone unturned,&quot; said a Boston-based investor who was contacted by Larson but declined to be identified so he could speak candidly about the new fund.<\/p>\n<p>Larson&#8217;s $3 billion hedge fund firm, Sowood Capital Management, lost half of its capital a year ago following heavy losses on his bond market investments.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/ousiv\/idUSN2427079020080724\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters- One year after Jeffrey Larson lost about $1.5 billion in one of the hedge fund industry&#8217;s most spectacular collapses, he is trying to raise fresh capital for a new fund, people familiar with his plans said. &quot;Larson is back [&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":[1721,1412,63,999,1720,117,1722,170,1719,699],"class_list":["post-8200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-consumer-debt","tag-decade","tag-first-avenue","tag-golf-term","tag-harcourt-investment-consulting","tag-investment-arm","tag-last-september","tag-money-managers","tag-sowood-capital-management-lp","tag-volatility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200","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=8200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}