{"id":9646,"date":"2009-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-unlikely-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/hedge-funds-unlikely-leader.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds&#8217; unlikely leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"base_text\">CNNMoney.com &#8211; When the headhunter first called Richard Baker in late 2007 and asked him if he was interested in becoming president and CEO of the Managed Funds Association &#8211; the hedge fund trade group &#8211; Baker thought it was a joke. &quot;My reaction was, &#8216;You want me to do what?&#8217;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>An 11-term Republican Congressman from Louisiana, Baker was about as likely a candidate to run the MFA as Bill Gates is to run an Apple in his home office.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Baker had emerged as a fierce and independent critic of the financial services industry &#8211; pushing for tougher regulation of hedge funds after the 1998 collapse of Long Term Capital Management.<br \/><\/span><br \/><strong><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/cnnmoney.mlogic.mobi\/money\/latest_news\/latest_news\/detail\/118146\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNNMoney.com &#8211; When the headhunter first called Richard Baker in late 2007 and asked him if he was interested in becoming president and CEO of the Managed Funds Association &#8211; the hedge fund trade group &#8211; Baker thought it was [&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":[5814,5860,1563,1302,5864,5862,5857,5863,5063,1409,3096,3496,5858,5859,5861],"class_list":["post-9646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-apple","tag-bill-gates","tag-ceo","tag-collapse","tag-financial-services-industry","tag-headhunter","tag-independent-critic","tag-joke","tag-long-term-capital-management","tag-long-term-capital","tag-louisiana","tag-mfa","tag-republican-congressman","tag-richard-baker","tag-trade-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646","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=9646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}