{"id":38809,"date":"2013-10-24T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=38809"},"modified":"2013-10-24T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:37:20","slug":"hedge-fund-tci-lands-5-8-royal-mail-stake-the-questions-get-harder-for-vince-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2013\/hedge-fund-tci-lands-5-8-royal-mail-stake-the-questions-get-harder-for-vince-cable.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund TCI lands 5.8% Royal Mail stake: the questions get harder for Vince Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; So, despite Vince Cable&#8217;s efforts, a big hedge fund has got its hands on a slice of Royal Mail. Not just any hedge fund either. It&#8217;s Chris Hohn&#8217;s TCI, which had a prominent role in 2007 as agitator-in-chief demanding that ABN Amro be sold to the highest bidder, which turned out to be Royal Bank of Scotland, which turned out to be the UK Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Hohn also does cuddly long-termism on occasions, and maybe that&#8217;s his plan for the 5.8% holding in Royal Mail. But TCI&#8217;s arrival makes the questions harder for Cable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/nils-pratley-on-finance\/2013\/oct\/23\/hedge-fund-tci-royal-mail-questions-vince-cable\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; So, despite Vince Cable&#8217;s efforts, a big hedge fund has got its hands on a slice of Royal Mail. Not just any hedge fund either. It&#8217;s Chris Hohn&#8217;s TCI, which had a prominent role in 2007 as agitator-in-chief [&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-38809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809","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=38809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38810,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions\/38810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}