{"id":27480,"date":"2012-02-20T08:18:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27480"},"modified":"2012-02-20T08:18:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:18:49","slug":"funds-and-firms-on-a-collision-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2012\/funds-and-firms-on-a-collision-course.html","title":{"rendered":"Funds and firms on a collision course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dow Jones &#8211; Distinctions between hedge funds and private equity are becoming increasingly blurred as alternatives managers look to do more long-term buyout deals and private equity firms seek to emulate investment funds.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years ago, Henry Kravis, co-founder of US buyout house Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, was scathing about hedge funds. After beating them to a $3.7bn energy deal he said: \u201cAny fool can buy a company but to deliver improvements you have to act like an industrialist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efinancialnews.com\/story\/2012-02-20\/funds-and-firms-on-a-collision-course\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dow Jones &#8211; Distinctions between hedge funds and private equity are becoming increasingly blurred as alternatives managers look to do more long-term buyout deals and private equity firms seek to emulate investment funds. Eight years ago, Henry Kravis, co-founder of [&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-27480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27480","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=27480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27481,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27480\/revisions\/27481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}