{"id":11135,"date":"2009-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"tci-loses-more-than-face-as-japan-says-no-to-foreigners-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/tci-loses-more-than-face-as-japan-says-no-to-foreigners-playing.html","title":{"rendered":"TCI Loses More Than Face as Japan Says No to Foreigners Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; It was a crisp autumn day in November 2005 when hedge fund manager John Ho entered the half- century-old Electric Power Development Co.&#8217;s headquarters in Tokyo, betting that Japan&#8217;s corporate attitudes were ripe for change.             <\/p>\n<p>Ho, then director of Asia-Pacific investments at the Children&#8217;s Investment Fund Management UK LLP, also known as TCI, was ushered into a conference room with a worn carpet to meet with Masayoshi Kitamura, then executive vice president of the utility. The visitor, who was offered a bottle of water, told Kitamura he wanted to learn more about the company&#8217;s plans&nbsp;for growth.     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&#038;sid=aLRUyetXk9yA\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; It was a crisp autumn day in November 2005 when hedge fund manager John Ho entered the half- century-old Electric Power Development Co.&#8217;s headquarters in Tokyo, betting that Japan&#8217;s corporate attitudes were ripe for change. Ho, then director [&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":[3017,14697,11114,14695,14696,14698,7901,11917,37,7799,1482,357,14700,2139,14699,5427,4826,5130],"class_list":["post-11135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asia-pacific","tag-autumn-day","tag-carpet","tag-corporate-attitudes","tag-crisp-autumn","tag-day-in-november","tag-development-co","tag-executive-vice","tag-hedge-fund-manager","tag-investment-fund-management","tag-investments","tag-japan","tag-kitamura","tag-management-uk","tag-masayoshi","tag-tci","tag-tokyo","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135","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=11135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}