{"id":7571,"date":"2008-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"equine-hedge-fund-tries-to-outpace-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/equine-hedge-fund-tries-to-outpace-the-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Equine hedge fund tries to outpace the market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters UK- If investing in hedge funds these days seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/HedgeFundsandPrivateEquity08\/idUSN28EUTERSUMMIT20080410\">about as certain as betting on the ponies<\/a>, why not a fund to buy and race thoroughbreds?<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times&nbsp;reported on Monday that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieah.com\/cgi-bin\/home.cgi\">International Equine Acquisitions Holdings<\/a> is raising $100 million for a hedge fund that will buy, sell, race and breed horses, charging management fees and taking a percentage of any investment gains. The founders, ex-Wall Street denizens Michael Iavarone and Richard J. Schiavo, want to take their company public by year-end.<\/p>\n<p>IEAH wants to &ldquo;remake the economic landscape of a multibillion-dollar industry,&rdquo; the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/reuters-dealzone\/2008\/04\/21\/equine-hedge-fund-tries-to-outpace-the-market\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters UK- If investing in hedge funds these days seems about as certain as betting on the ponies, why not a fund to buy and race thoroughbreds? The New York Times&nbsp;reported on Monday that International Equine Acquisitions Holdings is raising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7571","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=7571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}