{"id":54146,"date":"2016-08-31T08:38:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54146"},"modified":"2016-08-31T08:38:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:38:35","slug":"activist-hedge-funds-and-big-banks-a-match-made-in-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2016\/activist-hedge-funds-and-big-banks-a-match-made-in-mediocrity.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist Hedge Funds And Big Banks: A Match Made in Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Dealbreaker.com) When hedge fund ValueAct Capital gobbled up a 2 percent stake in Morgan Stanley a few weeks ago, it reignited a speculative thread that has cropped up repeatedly in 2016: activist investors could soon be storming the gates at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and the rest of the major banks. At first blush, it seems like a natural move&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2016\/08\/owen-davis-big-banks-activist-investors\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Dealbreaker.com) When hedge fund ValueAct Capital gobbled up a 2 percent stake in Morgan Stanley a few weeks ago, it reignited a speculative thread that has cropped up repeatedly in 2016: activist investors could soon be storming the gates at [&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-54146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54146","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=54146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54147,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54146\/revisions\/54147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}