{"id":4597,"date":"2008-12-20T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2008-12-20T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T23:31:00","slug":"bronte-capital-added-to-blogroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=4597","title":{"rendered":"Bronte Capital Added to Blogroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t read much of <a href=\"http:\/\/brontecapital.blogspot.com\/\">Bronte Capital<\/a>, but I like what I see! The blog has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/views\/blogs\/market-movers\/2008\/07\/29\/john-hempton-financial-blogger-extraordinaire?rss=true\">favourably reviewed<\/a> by Felix Salmon.<\/p>\n<p>The identification is not robust, but I believe that the author, John Hempton, was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platinum.com.au\/images\/us-finance.pdf\">Senior Analyst<\/a> with Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platinum.com.au\">Platinum Asset Management<\/a>. There is a Canadian connection with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepcapture.com\/introducing-john-hempton-the-plunderer-from-down-under\/\">unsupported allegations<\/a> that Mr. Hempton was involved &#8211; somehow &#8211; with the shorts&#8217; attack on Fairfax. There is a John Hempton named in a <a href=\"http:\/\/securities.stanford.edu\/1037\/FFH_01\/200727_o01c_07640.pdf\">class action lawsuit against SAC regarding Fairfax<\/a>, but whether the lawsuit&#8217;s John Hempton is the same as the other John Hemptons named here is not clear. There is a similar reference in <a href=\"http:\/\/securities.stanford.edu\/1037\/FFH_01\/200695_o01n_064197.pdf\">Fairfax&#8217;s lawsuit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t read much of Bronte Capital, but I like what I see! The blog has been favourably reviewed by Felix Salmon. The identification is not robust, but I believe that the author, John Hempton, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}