{"id":47679,"date":"2015-04-23T08:07:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47679"},"modified":"2015-04-23T08:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:07:30","slug":"the-surprising-market-response-to-activist-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2015\/the-surprising-market-response-to-activist-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"The Surprising Market Response to Activist Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Is hedge-fund activism good or bad? This question has dominated financial debate this year, as hedge funds besiege on average nearly one company a day seeking to shake up managements. This month\u2019s battle over the future of Vivendi follows recent activist campaigns at Dow Chemical, DuPont, PepsiCo, Sotheby\u2019s, Yahoo and many others. Martin Lipton\u2014a prominent lawyer who has defended companies against agitating shareholders since the 1980s\u2014labels the new efforts a \u201cwar\u201d and warns that \u201cactivist hedge funds are winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-surprising-market-response-to-activist-hedge-funds-1429743683\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Is hedge-fund activism good or bad? This question has dominated financial debate this year, as hedge funds besiege on average nearly one company a day seeking to shake up managements. This month\u2019s battle over the future of Vivendi [&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-47679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47679","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=47679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47682,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47679\/revisions\/47682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}