{"id":3640,"date":"2005-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"morgan-stanley-offered-to-buy-5-bln-hedge-fund-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2005\/morgan-stanley-offered-to-buy-5-bln-hedge-fund-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley offered to buy $5 bln hedge fund-report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  PHILADELPHIA, Nov 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Morgan Stanley (MWD.N: <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/stocks\/overview.aspx?symbol=MWD.N\">Quote<\/a>, <a href=  \"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/stocks\/CompanyProfile.aspx?symbol=MWD.N\">Profile<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/stocks\/ResearchReports.aspx?symbol=MWD.N\">Research<\/a>) recently offered to buy $5  billion hedge fund FrontPoint Partners, but a deal never materialized because the two parties couldn&#8217;t agree on a price, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources briefed on  the talks.<\/p>\n<p>  Morgan Stanley chief executive John Mack, who took the helm at the investment bank in June, is working to boost Morgan Stanley&#8217;s lagging share price and stem departures of its most productive  bankers and traders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/investing\/financeArticle.aspx?type=fundsNews2&amp;storyID=URI:urn:newsml:reuters.com:20051124:MTFH77736_2005-11-24_17-16-25_N24380702:1\">Read CompleteArticle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, Nov 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Morgan Stanley (MWD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) recently offered to buy $5 billion hedge fund FrontPoint Partners, but a deal never materialized because the two parties couldn&#8217;t agree on a price, The New York Times reported [&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-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","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=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}