{"id":13535,"date":"2010-01-05T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13535"},"modified":"2010-01-05T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T13:40:08","slug":"russian-prosperity%e2%80%99s-branis-rides-oil-to-lead-mid-size-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2010\/russian-prosperity%e2%80%99s-branis-rides-oil-to-lead-mid-size-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian Prosperity\u2019s Branis Rides Oil to Lead Mid-Size Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; When oil prices began rallying in 2009 off a five-year $34 low, Alexander Branis was well positioned.<\/p>\n<p>Branis, 32, chief investment officer of Prosperity Capital Management and manager of the firm\u2019s Russian Prosperity Fund, had several long-term bets on petroleum producers. One was OAO Bashneft, a southern Russian driller, which soared 542 percent through Dec. 23. Another was TNK-BP, BP Plc\u2019s Russian joint venture, which rose 165 percent in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-01-05\/russian-prosperity-s-branis-rides-oil-to-lead-mid-size-funds.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; When oil prices began rallying in 2009 off a five-year $34 low, Alexander Branis was well positioned. Branis, 32, chief investment officer of Prosperity Capital Management and manager of the firm\u2019s Russian Prosperity Fund, had several long-term bets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13536,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535\/revisions\/13536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}