{"id":8280,"date":"2008-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"jack-nash-pioneer-in-hedge-funds-dies-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/jack-nash-pioneer-in-hedge-funds-dies-at-79.html","title":{"rendered":"Jack Nash, Pioneer in Hedge Funds, Dies at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Blogs &#8211; Jack Nash, a former chairman of <strong>Oppenheimer &amp; Company<\/strong> who helped pioneer the modern hedge fund business, died July 30 in Manhattan. He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>He died at Mount Sinai Medical Center after a long illness, according to his family.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nash, who fled Nazi Germany with his family at the age of 12, joined Oppenheimer as a trainee in 1951 when it was still a small Wall Street investment firm. He left briefly to work for his father&rsquo;s textile business, but returned to the firm in 1954. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nash became the company&rsquo;s president in 1974, and its chairman in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>At Oppenheimer Mr. Nash met Leon Levy, his longtime business partner. They specialized in leveraged buyouts and transformed the company into one of the world&rsquo;s largest mutual fund businesses.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/04\/jack-nash-pioneer-in-hedge-funds-dies-at-79\/\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Blogs &#8211; Jack Nash, a former chairman of Oppenheimer &amp; Company who helped pioneer the modern hedge fund business, died July 30 in Manhattan. He was 79. He died at Mount Sinai Medical Center after a long [&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":[769,1838,1908,1270,1907,147,1480,268,77,1880,771,1546],"class_list":["post-8280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-ashe","tag-boom-days","tag-early-1990s","tag-global-footprint","tag-insistence","tag-journalism","tag-korea-times","tag-multibillion-dollar","tag-sister-sites","tag-stephen-schwarzman","tag-theo","tag-university-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280","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=8280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}