{"id":37050,"date":"2013-07-30T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T16:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=37050"},"modified":"2013-07-30T12:25:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T16:25:53","slug":"bullish-on-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2013\/bullish-on-obamacare.html","title":{"rendered":"Bullish on Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barron&#8217;s &#8211; Larry Robbins usually describes the approach of his $6.4 billion hedge-fund firm, Glenview Capital Management, as &#8220;suggestivist,&#8221; cultivating amicable working relationships with corporate management to propose shareholder-friendly changes. Now he&#8217;s becoming an activist for the first time, challenging one of his holdings in a proxy contest that is under way.<\/p>\n<p>The switch in tactics isn&#8217;t the result of any shortfall in Glenview&#8217;s performance. Its flagship, the $4.8 billion Glenview fund, returned 26.8% last year, and over 10 years has provided an annualized 13.4% gain to its investors, due in large part to Robbins&#8217; focus on health-care stocks. His 13-year-old firm today has 72 employees and occupies the 44th floor of the prestigious General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/article\/SB50001424052748704755304578621540036830574.html#articleTabs_article%3D1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barron&#8217;s &#8211; Larry Robbins usually describes the approach of his $6.4 billion hedge-fund firm, Glenview Capital Management, as &#8220;suggestivist,&#8221; cultivating amicable working relationships with corporate management to propose shareholder-friendly changes. Now he&#8217;s becoming an activist for the first time, challenging [&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-37050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37050","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=37050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37052,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37050\/revisions\/37052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}