{"id":9289,"date":"2008-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"paulson-unaffected-by-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/paulson-unaffected-by-hard-times.html","title":{"rendered":"Paulson:  Unaffected by Hard Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; At a time when most hedge funds are posting their worst year to date, John Paulson somehow manages to stay afloat.&nbsp; The founder of Paulson &amp; Co. has informed investors that his funds are in fact up in November and furthermore, posting double-digit gains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Paulson&rsquo;s Advantage Plus Fund, which manages around $10 billion, climbed 3.19 percent in November, with a 33.5 percent gain for the year.&nbsp; His $5 billion Advantage Fund followed suit, posting gains of just over 2 percent in November and 21 percent for the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">John Paulson bet infamously against the housing market, predicting the subprime fallout that ensued.&nbsp; His insight allowed him to rake in $3.5 billion virtually overnight, giving him the most lucrative Wall Street payday to date.&nbsp; It also landed him on the Forbres Richest List at number 78, with a net worth estimated at $4.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Paulson &amp; Co. currently manages approximately $35 billion through several hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Scuderi<br \/>Senior Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: julie@hedgeco.net<\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/news\/11\/news\/11\/news\/11\/news\/10\/news\/10\/news\/03\/\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgefundtools.com<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgefundemployment.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; At a time when most hedge funds are posting their worst year to date, John Paulson somehow manages to stay afloat.&nbsp; The founder of Paulson &amp; Co. has informed investors that his funds are in fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[303,110,974,147,150,81,633,3772],"class_list":["post-9289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","tag-brokerages","tag-due-diligence-service","tag-financial-history","tag-journalism","tag-market-disruptions","tag-newcastle","tag-repercussions","tag-richest-americans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289","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=9289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}