{"id":20870,"date":"2011-02-28T05:37:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T10:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20870"},"modified":"2011-02-28T05:37:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T10:37:01","slug":"activist-hedge-fund-managers-eye-ceos-sitting-on-piles-of-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/activist-hedge-fund-managers-eye-ceos-sitting-on-piles-of-cash.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist Hedge Fund Managers Eye CEOs Sitting on Piles of Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emii &#8211; They\u2019re back. Activist hedge fund managers, who agitate to force out entrenched company managements, are in fighting form for the 2011 proxy season and stalking companies hoarding cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re seeing more attention paid to activism, given corporate balance sheets\u2019 cash reserves,\u201d says Jason Orchard, a principal with New York\u2013based fund-of-hedge-funds firm Spring Mountain Capital, which invests with activist and event-driven funds. \u201cCompanies are still a little leery on this recovery, but they have so much cash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emii.com\/Articles\/2776239\/Hedge-Funds\/Hedge-Funds-Articles\/Activist-Hedge-Fund-Managers-Eye-CEOs-Sitting-on-Piles-of-Cash.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emii &#8211; They\u2019re back. Activist hedge fund managers, who agitate to force out entrenched company managements, are in fighting form for the 2011 proxy season and stalking companies hoarding cash. \u201cYou\u2019re seeing more attention paid to activism, given corporate balance [&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-20870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870","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=20870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20872,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870\/revisions\/20872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}