{"id":52816,"date":"2016-05-27T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52816"},"modified":"2016-05-27T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:33:09","slug":"event-driven-equity-hedge-fund-crowding-overshadows-positive-fundamental-backdrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2016\/event-driven-equity-hedge-fund-crowding-overshadows-positive-fundamental-backdrop.html","title":{"rendered":"Event-Driven Equity \u2013 Hedge Fund Crowding Overshadows Positive Fundamental Backdrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Nasdaq) Selling pressure from several large hedge funds has led to meaningful underperformance in more heavily trafficked hedge fund names.<\/p>\n<p>The financial crisis of 2008 caused a slowdown in corporate activity that lasted for over five years. Starting in 2014, after years of cutting costs and building large cash balances, CEO confidence began to rise and a combination of slow global economic growth, cheap financing and attractive valuations sparked a wave of M&#038;A deals, spinoffs, restructurings and the like. Deal volume increased in 2014 and broke record highs in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/article\/event-driven-equity-hedge-fund-crowding-overshadows-positive-fundamental-backdrop-cm626413\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Nasdaq) Selling pressure from several large hedge funds has led to meaningful underperformance in more heavily trafficked hedge fund names. The financial crisis of 2008 caused a slowdown in corporate activity that lasted for over five years. Starting in 2014, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52816","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=52816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52817,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52816\/revisions\/52817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}