{"id":44186,"date":"2014-09-25T06:36:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44186"},"modified":"2014-09-25T06:36:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:36:23","slug":"hedge-funds-get-jostled-by-inversions-jiggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2014\/hedge-funds-get-jostled-by-inversions-jiggles.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Get Jostled by Inversions&#8217; Jiggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Buying shares of Shire PLC has been one of the most popular hedge-fund bets of the year. It also has been among the most nerve-racking.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds Paulson &#038; Co., Magnetar Financial LLC and Elliott Management Corp. are among eight firms that have together snapped up more than $8 billion of Shire stock, or about 17% of the Dublin pharmaceutical company, anticipating a big payoff if its $54 billion purchase by AbbVie Inc. is completed. The collective bet is one of the biggest wagers on a deal in recent memory, some hedge-fund managers said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/hedge-funds-get-jostled-by-inversions-jiggles-1411601515\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Buying shares of Shire PLC has been one of the most popular hedge-fund bets of the year. It also has been among the most nerve-racking. Hedge funds Paulson &#038; Co., Magnetar Financial LLC and Elliott Management Corp. are [&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-44186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44186","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=44186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44187,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44186\/revisions\/44187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}