{"id":3979,"date":"2006-02-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"private-equity-funds-bristle-as-hedge-funds-muscle-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2006\/private-equity-funds-bristle-as-hedge-funds-muscle-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Private equity funds bristle as hedge funds muscle in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  A revolution is expected, but can hedge funds take over the world? Gemma Westacott reports:<\/p>\n<p>  Hedge&nbsp;funds are encroaching on what has traditionally been the hunting ground of private equity funds. Merrill Lynch chairman for Europe, the Middle East and Asia Bob Wigley sparked a heated  debate at the end of last year about such convergence, stating that hedge funds were targeting what was traditionally the buyout firm&#8217;s turf in Europe after testing the ground in the US.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  But while hedge funds&#8217; involvement may signal an intention to take a more controlling interest in the companies they invest in, it may not turn out to be the revolution that was feared (or  exalted).<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelawyer.com\/cgi-bin\/item.cgi?id=118792&amp;d=122&amp;h=24&amp;f=46\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A revolution is expected, but can hedge funds take over the world? Gemma Westacott reports: Hedge&nbsp;funds are encroaching on what has traditionally been the hunting ground of private equity funds. Merrill Lynch chairman for Europe, the Middle East and Asia [&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-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","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=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}