{"id":45684,"date":"2015-01-06T09:17:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45684"},"modified":"2015-01-06T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T14:17:50","slug":"love-him-or-hate-him-bill-ackman-now-runs-the-worlds-top-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2015\/love-him-or-hate-him-bill-ackman-now-runs-the-worlds-top-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Love Him or Hate Him, Bill Ackman Now Runs the World\u2019s Top Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Lunch was a bit awkward. It was around 1 p.m. on a warm October day in New York. A group of Wall Street investors were tucking into chicken in a red-wine demi-glace and Brussels sprouts at the Plaza Hotel. They\u2019d convened for Jim Grant\u2019s fall conference, hosted by the influential editor of Grant\u2019s Interest Rate Observer.<\/p>\n<p>The lunch speaker was Marty Lipton, legendary lawyer and veteran defender of management in countless proxy battles, hostile takeovers and corporate raids. His talk, which he had titled \u201cActivist Interventions and the Destruction of Long-Term Value,\u201d took aim at a strategy being used with increasing success against his clients and other corporations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2015-01-06\/love-him-or-hate-him-ackman-now-runs-the-world-s-top-hedge-fund.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Lunch was a bit awkward. It was around 1 p.m. on a warm October day in New York. A group of Wall Street investors were tucking into chicken in a red-wine demi-glace and Brussels sprouts at the Plaza [&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-45684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45684","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=45684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45690,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45684\/revisions\/45690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}