{"id":4615,"date":"2006-06-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-soccer-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2006\/hedge-fund-soccer-club.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Soccer Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"writeboardbody\">  WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) &#8211; Hedge Funds have begun to have a growing intrest in the football industry. In an article published by Times-online, many hedge funds like, Perry Capital,  Och-Ziff Capital Management, and Citadel are playing parts as investors in teams such as Malcolm Glazer\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Manchester United.  <\/p>\n<p>    The US based hedge fund Polygon is working with <span class=\"caps\">UBS<\/span> to take Sir John Hall\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s place as shareholder in Newcastle United, the premier football club, in which&nbsp;he    currently owns 28.5% .  <\/p>\n<p>    They have been working on a buyout proposal for several months now. According to the Times, Douglas, Hall\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s son, is connected to further interests that account for about another 13% of the    shares. Shepherd Offshore, the company connected to the Newcastle United chairman, Freddy Shepherd, owns another 26.7% of the club.  <\/p>\n<p>    Newcastle United was bought for an estimated \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a33m in 1991.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  Alex Akesson<br \/>  Contributing Writer<br \/>  HedgeCo.Net<br \/>  Email: Editor@hedgeco.net<\/p>\n<p>  HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\">www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong>  and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\"><strong>www.hedgefundemployment.com.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, FL (HEDGECO.NET) &#8211; Hedge Funds have begun to have a growing intrest in the football industry. In an article published by Times-online, many hedge funds like, Perry Capital, Och-Ziff Capital Management, and Citadel are playing parts as [&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":[],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}