Politico reports:

Fred Thompson drew on his Senate intelligence experience to help a $3 billion investment group protect its wealthy investors’ cash from market fluctuations caused by international dust-ups and security threats.

Guggenheim Advisors, which invests a small group of ultra-rich clients’ cash in hedge funds, was good for Thompson, too. It paid him a healthy stipend to serve on an advisory board and boosted his presidential campaign by giving him a platform to explore a candidacy and an early infusion of campaign cash when he jumped into the race.

Thompson’s affiliation with Guggenheim in some ways bucks his efforts to cast himself as a good ol’ boy more attuned with regular folks than his competitors for the Republican presidential nomination. But the connection to hedge funds is not on its face inconsistent with his economic rhetoric, which stresses free market principles. However, it’s tough to know the nature of Guggenheim’s investments, since it’s not subject to disclosure requirements.

The news here is what exactly? I mean, I can see this as part of a biography piece on Thompson, but otherwise...

It's not like Thompson is running on a "Two Americas" platform.

I guess the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.