{"id":3910,"date":"2006-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"frat-vp-plans-to-start-a-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2006\/frat-vp-plans-to-start-a-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Frat VP Plans to Start a Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CU Columbia Spectator &#8211; While other juniors are frantic to hear back about summer internships at big investment firms, Lightcap is relaxed. He\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s already got his.<\/p>\n<p>  Lightcap, class treasurer and vice president of Pi Kappa Alpha, has worked in the finance world for over a year.<\/p>\n<p>  \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cSince I was 10, I invested my money in the stock market. It really interests me, I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m good with numbers, I like economics, and it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a really exciting industry,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d he said, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009dand it pays really well.  It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s always nice to have nice things to buy.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<p>  A departure from the usual client-oriented field of investment banking, Lightcap\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s job at Value Holdings, a small hedge fund, involves more straight investing.<\/p>\n<p>  \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI prefer to do my own thing. I got into this because I like investing, and I like buying stocks\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dnot because I enjoy executing trades and dealing with clients,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d he explained. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cOur clients give us  the money, and as long as we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re doing well, we never hear from them.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/vnews\/display.v\/ART\/2006\/01\/30\/43ddd575d3258\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CU Columbia Spectator &#8211; While other juniors are frantic to hear back about summer internships at big investment firms, Lightcap is relaxed. He\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s already got his. Lightcap, class treasurer and vice president of Pi Kappa Alpha, has worked in the [&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-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","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=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}