{"id":46929,"date":"2015-03-16T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46929"},"modified":"2015-03-16T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:18:44","slug":"hedge-fund-seeks-boardroom-shakeup-at-alliance-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2015\/hedge-fund-seeks-boardroom-shakeup-at-alliance-trust.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund seeks boardroom shakeup at Alliance Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; Alliance Trust is facing a new battle over strategy and governance as activist hedge fund Elliott Advisors pushes for the appointment of three new directors to the board of the Dundee-based investment group.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott, which owns 12% of Alliance\u2019s stock, has written to fellow shareholders calling on them to back the election of the independent non-executives at the firm\u2019s annual shareholding meeting on 29 April after its attempts to discuss \u201cmatters of corporate governance and business concern\u201d had \u201cnot been met with any meaningful response\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/mar\/16\/hedge-fund-seeks-boardroom-shakeup-at-alliance-trust-elliott-advisors\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; Alliance Trust is facing a new battle over strategy and governance as activist hedge fund Elliott Advisors pushes for the appointment of three new directors to the board of the Dundee-based investment group. Elliott, which owns 12% of [&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-46929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46929","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=46929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46930,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46929\/revisions\/46930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}