{"id":52957,"date":"2016-06-08T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T12:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52957"},"modified":"2016-06-08T08:05:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T12:05:17","slug":"activists-boost-innovation-as-well-as-share-prices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2016\/activists-boost-innovation-as-well-as-share-prices-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Activists Boost Innovation as Well as Share Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) It looks as if hedge fund activists engineer not just a short-term pop in target firms&#8217; stock prices but also long-term improvements in innovation. While studies have shown that news of an activist position in a stock leads to a 5 to 7 percent pop, some have argued that hedge funds are simply creating a short-term share price gain at the expense of long-term competitiveness and productivity&#8230;.A new working paper finds benefits to innovation at firms which get picked on by hedge fund activists, benefits which may extend to other firms not directly involved&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-markets-saft-idUSKCN0YN5UM]\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) It looks as if hedge fund activists engineer not just a short-term pop in target firms&#8217; stock prices but also long-term improvements in innovation. While studies have shown that news of an activist position in a stock leads to [&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-52957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52957","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=52957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52958,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52957\/revisions\/52958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}