Protesters bypass hotel security to disrupt investors conference

Talk about your security failures.

A conference at the posh Waldorf-Astoria with some of the wealthiest investors in the world in attendance was temporarily halted on Wednesday after a group of protesters waltzed past hotel security and into the third-floor meeting.

More than a dozen hedge fund-hating protesters, many wearing red T-shirts that read “Hedge Funds = Inequality,” shoved a female conference organizer out of the way and stormed into the Grand Ballroom, chanting and yelling, sources told The Post.

“If these guys were armed it could have been very dangerous,” one security industry source said.

Former President George W. Bush appeared at the conference the day before.

“Someone really messed up” to allow the protesters to get that far, said one attendee. “It’s probably the hotel.”

A lot of attendees were scared, said a second person at the event.

The protesters were from a group called Hedge Clippers, an outgrowth of Occupy Wall Street. They have disrupted several hedge fund conferences in the last year or so.

As the group barged into the ballroom, Avenue Capital’s Marc Lasry was on the stage speaking about opportunities in credit, a source who attended the confab said.

Beijing-based Anbang Insurance Group bought the Waldorf from Hilton Worldwide in early 2014 for $1.95 billion.

Many US presidents have stayed at the Waldorf, but President Obama, since the sale, has stayed elsewhere when visiting New York.

The conference is run by EnTrust Capital, a $12 billion New York hedge fund.

Neither the Waldorf, Hedge Clippers nor EnTrust returned calls.