{"id":28109,"date":"2012-03-22T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28109"},"modified":"2012-03-22T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T15:40:27","slug":"proxy-battle-pits-new-yahoo-ceo-against-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2012\/proxy-battle-pits-new-yahoo-ceo-against-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Proxy battle pits new Yahoo CEO against hedge fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Less than three months into the job as Yahoo Inc&#8217;s chief executive, Scott Thompson faces a proxy showdown with hedge fund Third Point that will determine whether he or a slate of dissident directors nominated by the hedge fund&#8217;s founder, Dan Loeb, gets to chart the company&#8217;s course.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thompson has got to make his case. And now he has to do it persuasively because there&#8217;s another guy who is going to make his case persuasively,&#8221; said Lawrence Haverty, a fund manager with GAMCO Investors, which owns Yahoo shares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/03\/21\/us-yahoo-proxy-idUKBRE82K1E620120321\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Less than three months into the job as Yahoo Inc&#8217;s chief executive, Scott Thompson faces a proxy showdown with hedge fund Third Point that will determine whether he or a slate of dissident directors nominated by the hedge [&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-28109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28109","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=28109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28111,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28109\/revisions\/28111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}