{"id":9583,"date":"2009-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedging-loopholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/hedging-loopholes.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedging loopholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blueridgenow.com &#8211; Hedge funds have been in the news recently, usually with a watered down description of the characteristics of these investment vehicles. Most folks know that Chelsea Clinton works for a hedge fund (Avenue Capitol), and that John Edwards pulled down a hefty $500,000 consulting fee from another hedge fund, Fortress Investment Group. The odious George Soros, a contributor to hard left political groups, manages a hedge fund called Quantum Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards said he wanted to learn more about poverty. And where better to learn about poverty than working for an investment company that requires its clients to have at least a million dollars net worth (Since then, Fortress has navigated enough legal hurdles to offer its services to the general public through a listing on the New York Exchange, but that&rsquo;s unusual.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.blueridgenow.com\/article\/20090102\/NEWS\/901020269\/1014?Title=Hedging_loopholes\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blueridgenow.com &#8211; Hedge funds have been in the news recently, usually with a watered down description of the characteristics of these investment vehicles. Most folks know that Chelsea Clinton works for a hedge fund (Avenue Capitol), and that John Edwards [&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":[5381,3045,2055,5047,2568,496,5383,5379,5247,5385,5382,5384,5386,5380],"class_list":["post-9583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-chelsea-clinton","tag-contributor","tag-fortress-investment-group","tag-george-soros","tag-investment-company","tag-investment-vehicles","tag-john-edwards","tag-legal-hurdles","tag-million-dollars","tag-net-worth","tag-new-york-exchange","tag-political-groups","tag-poverty","tag-quantum-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583","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=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}