{"id":46535,"date":"2015-02-19T08:46:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46535"},"modified":"2015-02-19T08:46:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:46:14","slug":"breakup-artist-hedge-funds-betting-billions-on-corporate-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2015\/breakup-artist-hedge-funds-betting-billions-on-corporate-marriages.html","title":{"rendered":"Breakup Artist Hedge Funds Betting Billions On Corporate Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Activist hedge fund investors are accused by defensive corporate boards and their advisors of being short sighted quick-buck artists that harm America\u2019s corporations. But, as the venom continues to fly, some funds are quietly taking\u00a0a long-term approach when it comes to\u00a0corporate mergers, sticking around well\u00a0after\u00a0large deals are struck.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it is rising hedge fund stars like Jeffrey Smith of Starboard Value and Keith Meister of Corvex Management, behind-the-scenes\u00a0deal mavens\u00a0like\u00a0John Paulson of Paulson &amp; Co. and Jeffrey Ubben of ValueAct Capital Management, or headline\u00a0grabbers like Bill Ackman or Pershing Square Management and Barry Rosenstein of Jana Partners,\u00a0all are betting that merger and acquisition activity is one of\u00a0the most compelling ways\u00a0to create value in current stock markets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/antoinegara\/2015\/02\/18\/hedge-funds-mergers-ma\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Activist hedge fund investors are accused by defensive corporate boards and their advisors of being short sighted quick-buck artists that harm America\u2019s corporations. But, as the venom continues to fly, some funds are quietly taking\u00a0a long-term approach when [&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-46535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46535","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=46535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46536,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46535\/revisions\/46536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}