{"id":46303,"date":"2015-02-04T06:49:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T11:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46303"},"modified":"2015-02-04T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T12:52:10","slug":"new-singapore-activist-hedge-fund-seeks-to-shake-up-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2015\/new-singapore-activist-hedge-fund-seeks-to-shake-up-companies.html","title":{"rendered":"New Singapore activist hedge fund seeks to shake up companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Roland Thng is seeking to shake up Singapore&#8217;s staid corporate landscape, setting up a new hedge fund focused exclusively on influencing the way locally listed companies are run.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has established EVA Capital SP with US$5 million (S$6.7 million), and initially plans to take stakes in small- and medium-sized construction and engineering companies in order to pressure them to improve performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/news\/business\/more-business-stories\/story\/new-singapore-activist-hedge-fund-seeks-shake-companies-20\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Roland Thng is seeking to shake up Singapore&#8217;s staid corporate landscape, setting up a new hedge fund focused exclusively on influencing the way locally listed companies are run. The 33-year-old has established EVA Capital SP with US$5 million [&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-46303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303","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=46303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46304,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303\/revisions\/46304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}