{"id":16872,"date":"2010-07-23T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16872"},"modified":"2010-07-23T07:00:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T11:00:55","slug":"event-driven-hedge-funds-popular-in-ma-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2010\/event-driven-hedge-funds-popular-in-ma-revival.html","title":{"rendered":"Event-driven hedge funds popular in M&#038;A revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge  fund selectors are backing managers who bet on corporate events such as  mergers, bankruptcy or restructuring, believing there will be more  &#8220;special situations&#8221; to exploit as firms battle through the downturn.<\/p>\n<p>Funds of hedge funds believe  &#8220;event-driven&#8221; managers will profit as distressed companies are forced  to restructure their debts to fend off creditors, and those with cleaner  balance sheets look to M&amp;A to boost sales in a low-growth  environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE66M1G720100723\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund selectors are backing managers who bet on corporate events such as mergers, bankruptcy or restructuring, believing there will be more &#8220;special situations&#8221; to exploit as firms battle through the downturn. Funds of hedge funds believe &#8220;event-driven&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16873,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872\/revisions\/16873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}