{"id":3797,"date":"2006-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-feasts-on-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2006\/hedge-fund-feasts-on-famine.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Feasts on Famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  David and Eugene Grin built a major business for themselves selling last-ditch loans to troubled companies. But with returns slipping, some wonder if their Laurus Family of Funds can continue  fattening itself at the bottom of Wall Street&#8217;s food chain.<\/p>\n<p>  In just five years, Laurus has gone from being a blip in the $1 trillion hedge fund universe to one of the nation&#8217;s largest investors in penny stocks. The Israeli emigres, who started in 2001 with  less than $5 million in capital, now boast nearly $1 billion in assets.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/_googlen\/markets\/hedgefunds\/10259627.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&amp;cm_cat=FREE&amp;cm_ite=NA\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David and Eugene Grin built a major business for themselves selling last-ditch loans to troubled companies. But with returns slipping, some wonder if their Laurus Family of Funds can continue fattening itself at the bottom of Wall Street&#8217;s food chain. [&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-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}