{"id":46482,"date":"2015-02-17T09:12:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46482"},"modified":"2015-02-17T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T14:12:26","slug":"the-economists-activist-hedge-fund-infomercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2015\/the-economists-activist-hedge-fund-infomercial.html","title":{"rendered":"The Economist\u2019s activist hedge fund infomercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ValueWalk &#8211; With its knack for tackling big subjects in a one-sided manner, The Economist in its February 7 issue imagines a dystopian world where corporate managers and boards of directors are generally incompetent, most investors are lazy; but &#8220;activists are a force for good&#8221; and &#8220;the saviours of public companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On a topic requiring sober, balanced coverage, The Economist conjures up an empirical &#8220;study&#8221; to produce misleading data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valuewalk.com\/2015\/02\/activist-hedge-fund-the-economist\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ValueWalk &#8211; With its knack for tackling big subjects in a one-sided manner, The Economist in its February 7 issue imagines a dystopian world where corporate managers and boards of directors are generally incompetent, most investors are lazy; but &#8220;activists [&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-46482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46482","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=46482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46486,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46482\/revisions\/46486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}