{"id":28390,"date":"2012-04-11T07:06:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28390"},"modified":"2012-04-11T07:06:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T11:06:38","slug":"odey-still-backing-bskyb-after-murdoch-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2012\/odey-still-backing-bskyb-after-murdoch-resignation.html","title":{"rendered":"Odey Still Backing BSkyB after Murdoch Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Pay TV group BSkyB has received the backing of\u00a0Crispin Odey, one of its top shareholders and one of Europe&#8217;s most influential hedge fund managers, in the wake of last week&#8217;s high-profile resignation of James Murdoch as chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Odey, whose London-based firm manages $6 billion in assets and who has been a long-term holder of BSkyB shares, said he is still positive on BSkyB, despite the loss of the &#8220;massively important&#8221; Mr. Murdoch. Mr. Murdoch, who until last year was seen as heir apparent to his father Rupert&#8217;s media empire, resigned last Tuesday [April 3] to prevent his links to a tabloid phone-hacking scandal from undermining the firm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeworld.com\/open_news\/read_newsletter_aa.cgi?section=dail&amp;story=dail20437.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Pay TV group BSkyB has received the backing of\u00a0Crispin Odey, one of its top shareholders and one of Europe&#8217;s most influential hedge fund managers, in the wake of last week&#8217;s high-profile resignation of James Murdoch as chairman. Mr. [&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-28390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390","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=28390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28392,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions\/28392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}