{"id":49681,"date":"2015-08-21T09:28:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=49681"},"modified":"2015-08-21T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:28:22","slug":"meet-the-small-time-short-seller-who-beats-big-name-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2015\/meet-the-small-time-short-seller-who-beats-big-name-investors.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Small-Time Short Seller Who Beats Big-Name Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Post) Score one for the little guy. Ben Axler, who runs tiny Spruce Point Capital hedge fund, faced off against big-name activists when he shorted ATM-maker NCR \u2014 and won. Jana Partners and Marcato Capital were pressing for a sale of the struggling NCR, but Axler, after poring over the company\u2019s financials, penned a 98-page report highlighting its flaws \u2014 and then put his money behind his brain work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/08\/20\/meet-the-small-time-short-seller-who-beats-big-name-investors\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Post) Score one for the little guy. Ben Axler, who runs tiny Spruce Point Capital hedge fund, faced off against big-name activists when he shorted ATM-maker NCR \u2014 and won. Jana Partners and Marcato Capital were pressing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-success-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49682,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681\/revisions\/49682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}