{"id":10590,"date":"2009-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"chemed-spars-with-hedge-fund-over-board-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/chemed-spars-with-hedge-fund-over-board-nominees.html","title":{"rendered":"Chemed spars with hedge fund over board nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hospice-care provider Chemed Corp, which also offers plumbing services under the Roto-Rooter brand, is urging shareholders to reject a hedge fund&#8217;s proposal to nominate five dissident directors to Chemed&#8217;s board.       <\/p>\n<p> Chemed has asked shareholders to discard proxy cards sent by MMI Investments LP, a New York hedge fund, and instead vote for the board&#8217;s nominees.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;MMI has one, and only one, idea for your company: to separate immediately Chemed&#8217;s businesses &#8211; VITAS and Roto-Rooter,&quot; Chemed said in a letter on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/rbssHealthcareNews\/idUKN1340058220090513\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hospice-care provider Chemed Corp, which also offers plumbing services under the Roto-Rooter brand, is urging shareholders to reject a hedge fund&#8217;s proposal to nominate five dissident directors to Chemed&#8217;s board. Chemed has asked shareholders to discard proxy cards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11674,9322,11148,9321,1482,9323,11672,6706,3430,4326,11671,6008,5661,11673],"class_list":["post-10590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-care-provider","tag-chemed-corp","tag-hedge-fund","tag-hospice-care","tag-investments","tag-mmi","tag-plumbing-services","tag-proposal","tag-proxy-cards","tag-reuters","tag-roto-rooter","tag-s-board","tag-shareholders","tag-vitas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}