{"id":8552,"date":"2008-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"goldfinger-makes-comeback-with-launch-of-5bn-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/goldfinger-makes-comeback-with-launch-of-5bn-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Goldfinger&#8217; makes comeback with launch of $5bn hedge fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story\">Telegraph.co.uk &#8211; Mark McGoldrick, a former Goldman Sachs trader whose track record earned him the nickname &#8216;Goldfinger&#8217; during his career with the Wall Street bank, is making a comeback with a new $5bn (&pound;2.8bn) fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\">McGoldrick, who famously earned $70m a year ($200,000 a day), but resigned because it was not enough, has asked his old firm to raise money for a super hedge fund that will concentrate on special situations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\">While at Goldman Sachs, McGoldrick was head of distressed and special situations investing in Asia. He co-founded and built the firm&#8217;s secretive &#8216;special-situations group&#8217;, Goldman&#8217;s elite and opaque money-making machine, which buys and sells eclectic assets including British power plants, Japanese golf courses and Thai auto loans.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2008\/09\/07\/cnmcgold107.xml\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph.co.uk &#8211; Mark McGoldrick, a former Goldman Sachs trader whose track record earned him the nickname &#8216;Goldfinger&#8217; during his career with the Wall Street bank, is making a comeback with a new $5bn (&pound;2.8bn) fund. McGoldrick, who famously earned $70m [&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":[678,858,1061,2552,147,129,101,2553,47],"class_list":["post-8552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-domicile","tag-few-days","tag-financial-distress","tag-investment-rates","tag-journalism","tag-losses","tag-raanan-agus","tag-stock-price","tag-third-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552","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=8552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}