{"id":11085,"date":"2009-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"activist-funds-eye-resurgence-in-friendlier-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/activist-funds-eye-resurgence-in-friendlier-climate.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist funds eye resurgence in friendlier climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba News Channel &#8211; European companies emerging from the credit crisis should start looking over their shoulders: activist investors are set to return from hibernation, working more closely than ever with institutions to effect change.<\/p>\n<p> The activists, who favour methods such as changing balance sheet structures, ousting chairmen or selling off non-core units, had little to do during the crisis when buyers were scarce and there was little appetite for transformatory change.  But now they are set to gain from a political will to drive large institutional investors towards more active investment and away from a mentality of simply selling stocks they don&#8217;t like, while a purge of more leveraged, short-termist funds has cleared the ground for activists to tap a wealth of new opportunities.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;Pushed and shoved by the regulators, mainstream institutions are beginning to countenance interaction with activist investors,&quot; said a senior figure at one activist firm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/en\/reuters_inner.tpl?action=2009-07-22T095834Z_01_LF164784_RTRIDST_0_ACTIVISTS-ANALYSIS\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba News Channel &#8211; European companies emerging from the credit crisis should start looking over their shoulders: activist investors are set to return from hibernation, working more closely than ever with institutions to effect change. The activists, who favour methods [&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":[1619,337,12377,6455,6096,7269,14452,1479,9174,781,14455,14450,2744,2013,14453,45,7908,14451,14454],"class_list":["post-11085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-activist","tag-activists","tag-alibaba","tag-appetite","tag-balance-sheet","tag-chairmen","tag-core-units","tag-credit-crisis","tag-favour","tag-institutional-investors","tag-interaction","tag-mainstream-institutions","tag-mentality","tag-new-opportunities","tag-purge","tag-regulators","tag-selling-stocks","tag-sheet-structures","tag-shoulders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085","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=11085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}