{"id":41919,"date":"2014-05-02T06:56:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41919"},"modified":"2014-05-02T06:57:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:57:19","slug":"sec-investigates-possible-hedge-fund-collusion-against-bill-ackmans-massive-herbalife-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2014\/sec-investigates-possible-hedge-fund-collusion-against-bill-ackmans-massive-herbalife-short.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC Investigates Possible Hedge Fund Collusion Against Bill Ackman&#8217;s Massive Herbalife Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is probing whether a number of hedge funds many have acted improperly when they made bets on nutrition and weight loss company Herbalife Ltd last year, a source said.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator is reviewing whether investors may have engaged in market manipulation or failed to properly disclose that they were working as a group when they lined up against billionaire investor William Ackman&#8217;s short bet against the company, said the person, who is familiar with the investigation put not permitted to discuss it publicly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/r-sec-probing-hedge-funds-bets-on-herbalife-2014-02\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is probing whether a number of hedge funds many have acted improperly when they made bets on nutrition and weight loss company Herbalife Ltd last year, a source said. The regulator [&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-41919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919","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=41919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41920,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919\/revisions\/41920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}