{"id":8918,"date":"2008-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-group-lasair-hires-investment-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/hedge-fund-group-lasair-hires-investment-officer.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund group Lasair hires investment officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Lasair Capital, a hedge fund industry newcomer that boasts General Electric Co as its blue-chip backer, said on Tuesday that it has hired a senior investment officer to help put $180 million to work.       <\/p>\n<p> Carrie McCabe, who founded Lasair as a &quot;next generation&quot; hedge fund firm earlier this year, told investors that Jennifer Coffey will now help select hedge funds as well as infrastructure and timber assets for clients.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;Jennifer will report directly to me and I will continue to oversee all investment decisions,&quot; McCabe, who cemented her reputation in the hedge fund industry while running Blackstone Alternative Asset Management and FRM Americas, told clients.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/marketsNews\/idUSN2130020420081021\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Lasair Capital, a hedge fund industry newcomer that boasts General Electric Co as its blue-chip backer, said on Tuesday that it has hired a senior investment officer to help put $180 million to work. Carrie McCabe, who founded [&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":[508,1604,3284,1824,3282,2941,1538,3283,3285,1299,117,3286,785,889],"class_list":["post-8918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bad-news","tag-bain-capital-llc","tag-barometer","tag-blind-trust","tag-carrie","tag-dividend-fund","tag-frm","tag-fund-investment","tag-general-electric","tag-industry-analysts","tag-investment-arm","tag-jenrette","tag-mccabe","tag-powerhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918","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=8918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}