{"id":9601,"date":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-charities-pinched-as-donors-ask-results-firms-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/hedge-fund-charities-pinched-as-donors-ask-results-firms-miss.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Charities Pinched as Donors Ask Results Firms Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Martin Ward, a teacher at a London experimental school called the Evelyn Grace Academy, is pitching Arpad Busson on a new&nbsp;idea for getting poor kids interested in science. The charity that Busson leads, Absolute Return for Kids, or ARK, is a sponsor of Evelyn Grace to the tune of 2 million pounds. <\/p>\n<p>Ward wants to buy a used ice-cream truck and turn it into a mobile science lab so that kids at cash-strapped schools around London can do hands-on experiments. Busson, who runs fund-of- hedge-funds firm EIM SA, asks a few questions and confers with a colleague. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s done,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got it. We&rsquo;ve found the money.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601088&#038;sid=aK_09wVSgJ2M&#038;refer=muse\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Martin Ward, a teacher at a London experimental school called the Evelyn Grace Academy, is pitching Arpad Busson on a new&nbsp;idea for getting poor kids interested in science. The charity that Busson leads, Absolute Return for Kids, or [&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":[1362,64,5495,5502,5501,5319,5500,5497,709,5496,3364,48,5499,5498],"class_list":["post-9601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-absolute-return","tag-bloomberg","tag-busson","tag-charity","tag-colleague","tag-eim","tag-evelyn","tag-experimental-school","tag-fund-of-hedge-funds","tag-grace-academy","tag-london","tag-money","tag-poor-kids","tag-science-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601","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=9601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}