{"id":71173,"date":"2019-10-02T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T05:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=71173"},"modified":"2019-10-02T01:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T05:10:59","slug":"hedge-fund-started-in-college-dorm-room-accused-of-fraud-by-sec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2019\/hedge-fund-started-in-college-dorm-room-accused-of-fraud-by-sec.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Started in College Dorm Room Accused of Fraud by SEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Samuel Barnett, 30, founded SBB Research almost a decade ago in his dorm room, transforming a college side gig into a hedge fund that managed more than $400 million. How did he pull it off? The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says through a years-long fraud that consisted of inflating holdings to mislead investors into believing that SBB\u2019s performance was much better than it actually was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-09-30\/hedge-fund-started-in-college-dorm-room-accused-of-fraud-by-sec\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Samuel Barnett, 30, founded SBB Research almost a decade ago in his dorm room, transforming a college side gig into a hedge fund that managed more than $400 million. How did he pull it off? The U.S. Securities and [&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-71173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71173","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=71173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71174,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71173\/revisions\/71174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}