{"id":69509,"date":"2019-06-02T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T04:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=69509"},"modified":"2019-06-04T01:41:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:41:06","slug":"poker-playing-hedge-fund-managers-have-an-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2019\/poker-playing-hedge-fund-managers-have-an-edge.html","title":{"rendered":"Poker-Playing Hedge Fund Managers Have an Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Do poker players make good hedge fund managers? On one hand, there\u2019s skill overlap. Both activities demand aggressiveness, accurate calculations under pressure, keen behavioral insight and shrewd risk-taking. On the other hand, poker seems like a risk-seeking activity, suggesting reckless and overconfident managers. Poker requires deception and gamblers are often considered untrustworthy. Also, time spent learning and playing poker is time taken away from investing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-05-30\/poker-playing-hedge-fund-managers-have-an-edge?srnd=premium-middle-east\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Do poker players make good hedge fund managers? On one hand, there\u2019s skill overlap. Both activities demand aggressiveness, accurate calculations under pressure, keen behavioral insight and shrewd risk-taking. On the other hand, poker seems like a risk-seeking activity, suggesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69509","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69510,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69509\/revisions\/69510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}