{"id":35626,"date":"2013-05-20T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=35626"},"modified":"2013-05-20T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:14:37","slug":"hampden-bank-under-pressure-to-sell-from-dallas-based-hedgefund-clover-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2013\/hampden-bank-under-pressure-to-sell-from-dallas-based-hedgefund-clover-partners.html","title":{"rendered":"Hampden Bank under pressure to sell from Dallas-based hedgefund Clover Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts\u00a0&#8211; A Texas hedge fund firm is stepping up its efforts to put\u00a0Hampden Bancorp\u00a0on the block by trying to get two of its representatives on the Springfield banking company\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>With 6.5 percent of the company\u2019s shares, Dallas-based hedge fund\u00a0Clover Partners\u00a0is the biggest institutional shareholder on Hampden\u2019s roster, which also includes Boston-based Wellington Management and other industry heavyweights. Johnny Guerry, Clover\u2019s managing partner, and Garold Base, CEO of Dallas-based Viewpoint Bank, were recently nominated for board membership by MHC Mutual Conversion Fund, a Clover general partner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/business-news\/index.ssf\/2013\/05\/hampden_bank_under_pressure_to_sell_from.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts\u00a0&#8211; A Texas hedge fund firm is stepping up its efforts to put\u00a0Hampden Bancorp\u00a0on the block by trying to get two of its representatives on the Springfield banking company\u2019s board of directors. With 6.5 percent of the company\u2019s shares, Dallas-based [&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-35626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626","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=35626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35630,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions\/35630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}