{"id":53507,"date":"2016-07-19T06:34:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T10:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53507"},"modified":"2016-07-19T07:02:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T11:02:41","slug":"hostile-resistance-to-hedge-fund-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2016\/hostile-resistance-to-hedge-fund-activism.html","title":{"rendered":"Hostile Resistance To Hedge Fund Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Valuewalk) Target firms openly resist hedge fund activists about one-fourth of the time, via poison pills, lawsuits, and restrictions on shareholder actions. <\/p>\n<p>Target firm resistance is met with a significantly negative market reaction, reducing the initial positive reaction to activism announcement. Unless hedge funds counter-resist with a proxy fight or lawsuit, targets are less likely to accede to hedge fund demands, be acquired, or experience improved long-term operating performance compared to non-resisting targets of the same hedge funds. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valuewalk.com\/2016\/07\/hostile-resistance-to-hedge-fund-activism\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Valuewalk) Target firms openly resist hedge fund activists about one-fourth of the time, via poison pills, lawsuits, and restrictions on shareholder actions. Target firm resistance is met with a significantly negative market reaction, reducing the initial positive reaction to activism [&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-53507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53507","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=53507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53508,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53507\/revisions\/53508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}