{"id":21299,"date":"2011-03-18T07:52:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T11:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21299"},"modified":"2011-03-18T07:52:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T11:52:56","slug":"richard-breeden-to-step-down-as-chairman-of-hr-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2011\/richard-breeden-to-step-down-as-chairman-of-hr-block.html","title":{"rendered":"Richard Breeden to step down as chairman of H&#038;R Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The largest U.S. tax preparer H&amp;R Block Inc said hedge fund investor Richard Breeden would step down as its chairman and director at the end of the 2011 tax season.<\/p>\n<p>Breeden, who owns nearly 5 percent of the company, took over as chairman in November 2007 after a proxy contest to focus the company&#8217;s efforts on its core tax business and reduce its debt load.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/03\/17\/idUSL3E7EH3FB20110317\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The largest U.S. tax preparer H&amp;R Block Inc said hedge fund investor Richard Breeden would step down as its chairman and director at the end of the 2011 tax season. Breeden, who owns nearly 5 percent of the [&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-21299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299","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=21299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21300,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299\/revisions\/21300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}