{"id":38971,"date":"2013-11-07T03:50:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T08:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=38971"},"modified":"2013-11-07T03:50:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T08:50:26","slug":"valueact-hedge-funds-big-microsoft-bet-is-paying-off-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2013\/valueact-hedge-funds-big-microsoft-bet-is-paying-off-so-far.html","title":{"rendered":"ValueAct Hedge Fund&#8217;s Big Microsoft Bet Is Paying Off So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; When Jeffrey Ubben\u2019s ValueAct Capital Management disclosed its $2 billion position in Microsoft MSFT +4.2% in April, it seemed like the activist hedge fund could be in over its head in trying to shake things up and bring change to the long-languishing Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Ubben was betting a big chunk of his hedge fund\u2019s $12 billion under management, but it was a tiny stake in the software giant amounting to 0.8% of the company\u2019s shares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nathanvardi\/2013\/11\/06\/valueact-hedge-funds-big-microsoft-bet-is-paying-off-so-far\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; When Jeffrey Ubben\u2019s ValueAct Capital Management disclosed its $2 billion position in Microsoft MSFT +4.2% in April, it seemed like the activist hedge fund could be in over its head in trying to shake things up and bring [&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-38971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971","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=38971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38972,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38971\/revisions\/38972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}