{"id":9161,"date":"2008-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"john-paulson-buys-mortgage-bonds-as-hedge-fund-losses-widen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2008\/john-paulson-buys-mortgage-bonds-as-hedge-fund-losses-widen.html","title":{"rendered":"John Paulson Buys Mortgage Bonds as Hedge Fund Losses Widen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Money manager John Paulson has started buying beaten-up mortgage bonds as hedge funds stumbled for a fifth straight month.             <\/p>\n<p>Paulson, 52, is purchasing debt backed by home loans after generating sixfold returns last year with help from bets against subprime mortgages, investors in his funds said. Paulson&#8217;s Advantage Plus fund rose 29 percent this year through October, while the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index, which tracks more than 2,000 funds that invest globally, dropped about 12 percent.     <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Paulson&#8217;s timing is typically very good,&#8221; said Louis Gargour, chief investment officer of LNG Capital LLP, a London- based hedge fund that invests in distressed credit markets.     <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601009&#038;sid=aKD.dHuY9wZQ&#038;refer=bond\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Money manager John Paulson has started buying beaten-up mortgage bonds as hedge funds stumbled for a fifth straight month. Paulson, 52, is purchasing debt backed by home loans after generating sixfold returns last year with help from bets [&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":[546,227,428,314,115,230,150,83,1522,86,258],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bias","tag-carlyle-group","tag-current-value","tag-finance","tag-indefinite-period","tag-institutional-marketing","tag-market-disruptions","tag-medallion","tag-news-briefing","tag-risk","tag-tremont-hedge-fund-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}