{"id":5983,"date":"2007-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"baha-superfund-pitch-grabs-ranieri-annoys-hedge-fund-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2007\/baha-superfund-pitch-grabs-ranieri-annoys-hedge-fund-rivals.html","title":{"rendered":"Baha&#8217;s Superfund Pitch Grabs Ranieri, Annoys Hedge Fund Rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  Three salespeople surround a speakerphone in a glass-fronted store across from the main New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, talking with counterparts in Chicago and Toronto. In the lobby,  flat-panel TVs run a loop of commercials for commodity investments.<\/p>\n<p>  Here, wedged among discount electronics retailers and mobile phone vendors, is what former Vienna cop and college dropout Christian Baha says is the next wave of investing: a company called  Superfund that&#8217;s hawking hedge fund-style funds to the masses.<\/p>\n<p>Baha has starred in his own commercials and sponsors U.S. skier Bode Miller and the American Ballet Theatre. In the fall, he rubbed shoulders with &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221; actor Teri Hatcher andmodel Claudia Schiffer at the Women&#8217;s World Awards in New York, a program that Superfund backs and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev heads.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a href=  \"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/9-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news%3Fpid%3D20601109%26sid%3Da_5cgtvQXuB0%26refer%3Dhome&amp;cid=1115707132&amp;ei=nJ8wRq7zIZe00QGRwJTJAw\">  Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Three salespeople surround a speakerphone in a glass-fronted store across from the main New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, talking with counterparts in Chicago and Toronto. In the lobby, flat-panel TVs run a loop of commercials for commodity [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983","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=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}