{"id":18225,"date":"2010-10-12T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T11:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=18225"},"modified":"2010-10-12T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T11:56:57","slug":"hedge-fund-activists-plot-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2010\/hedge-fund-activists-plot-a-comeback.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge-Fund Activists Plot A Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; The 2008 financial crisis left activist hedge funds with big losses. But the strategy is showing signs it&#8217;s in revival mode.<\/p>\n<p>Such investors often take big stakes in under-performing, cash-heavy companies. They sometimes push for strategic changes, including share buybacks, bigger dividends and asset sales.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20101011-704867.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; The 2008 financial crisis left activist hedge funds with big losses. But the strategy is showing signs it&#8217;s in revival mode. Such investors often take big stakes in under-performing, cash-heavy companies. They sometimes push for strategic changes, including [&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-18225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225","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=18225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18227,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18225\/revisions\/18227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}