{"id":41893,"date":"2014-05-01T06:39:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T10:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41893"},"modified":"2014-05-01T06:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T10:39:05","slug":"hedge-honcho-activists-killing-golden-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2014\/hedge-honcho-activists-killing-golden-goose.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge honcho: Activists killing &#8216;golden goose&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; Jeffrey Ubben, founder of $14 billion activist hedge fund firm ValueAct Capital, believes that some of his fellow corporate agitators are doing undue harm to companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We better be careful we don&#8217;t kill the golden goose. I think the media has to call out some of this stuff and not just celebrate the quote unquote victories of activist investors,&#8221; Ubben said Tuesday on an\u00a0activist investment panel\u00a0at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles. &#8220;Companies might want to push back more because there is some bad behavior going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/101626635\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; Jeffrey Ubben, founder of $14 billion activist hedge fund firm ValueAct Capital, believes that some of his fellow corporate agitators are doing undue harm to companies. &#8220;We better be careful we don&#8217;t kill the golden goose. I think [&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-41893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41893","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=41893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41894,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41893\/revisions\/41894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}