{"id":3503,"date":"2005-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"invasion-of-international-hedge-funds-australian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2005\/invasion-of-international-hedge-funds-australian.html","title":{"rendered":"Invasion of international hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian &#8211; <span class=\"bodytext\">Mass global hedge funds with billions of dollars in their pockets, constantly trawling the world for opportunities to make a quick profit, have changed thelandscape for takeovers in Australia in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"bodytext\">Even before a major takeover bid is announced, hedge funds don&#8217;t hesitate in pulling the trigger and piling into targets in hopes of a counter bid or a hiked offer,acting on well placed leaks and even mere speculation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"bodytext\">And when the hedge funds come knocking big time, it is often the death knell for management&#8217;s hopes of staying independent, as the register becomes dominated by hot  money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5744,16994865%5E643,00.html\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian &#8211; Mass global hedge funds with billions of dollars in their pockets, constantly trawling the world for opportunities to make a quick profit, have changed thelandscape for takeovers in Australia in recent years. Even before a major takeover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}