{"id":33332,"date":"2013-01-11T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T11:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=33332"},"modified":"2013-01-11T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T11:41:09","slug":"herbalife-unleashes-volley-at-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2013\/herbalife-unleashes-volley-at-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Herbalife Unleashes Volley at Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Herbalife Ltd. trotted out slides, videos and a business-school professor Thursday as it sought to counter a hedge-fund manager&#8217;s assertion that the company is a pyramid scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Two hedge-fund rivals are squaring off over Herbalife, with one saying the nutritional-supplements maker is a pyramid scheme and the other defending the company. Emily Glazer reports on Markets Hub. Photo: AP.<\/p>\n<p>Herbalife officials led by Chief Executive Michael Johnson spent 2\u00bd hours delivering arguments that the nutrition-supplement company&#8217;s customers are real and that its practice of selling through individuals who are given incentives to recruit new sellers is sound.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324581504578233811199427712.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Herbalife Ltd. trotted out slides, videos and a business-school professor Thursday as it sought to counter a hedge-fund manager&#8217;s assertion that the company is a pyramid scheme. Two hedge-fund rivals are squaring off over Herbalife, with one saying [&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-33332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33332","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=33332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33333,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33332\/revisions\/33333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}