{"id":28782,"date":"2012-05-01T07:04:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T11:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28782"},"modified":"2012-05-01T07:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T11:04:46","slug":"activist-hedge-funds-catch-eye-of-institutional-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2012\/activist-hedge-funds-catch-eye-of-institutional-investors.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist hedge funds catch eye of institutional investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pensions &amp; Investments &#8211; Activist hedge funds pulled in at least $2 billion in new assets from institutional investors over the past two years, with a marked acceleration in pace in the second half of 2011 and so far in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, institutional investors are using traditional long-only equity assets \u2014 rather than dedicated hedge fund allocations \u2014 to fund big-ticket mandates to equity hedge funds that focus on pushing for operational changes in public companies in order to increase shareholder value.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pionline.com\/article\/20120430\/PRINTSUB\/304309978\/activist-hedge-funds-catch-eye-of-institutional-investors\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pensions &amp; Investments &#8211; Activist hedge funds pulled in at least $2 billion in new assets from institutional investors over the past two years, with a marked acceleration in pace in the second half of 2011 and so far in [&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-28782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782","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=28782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28784,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782\/revisions\/28784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}