{"id":54351,"date":"2016-09-14T09:12:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T13:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54351"},"modified":"2016-09-14T09:12:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T13:12:24","slug":"blackrocks-mckenna-said-to-start-merger-arbitrage-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2016\/blackrocks-mckenna-said-to-start-merger-arbitrage-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock\u2019s McKenna Said to Start Merger-Arbitrage Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) BlackRock Inc. has started a hedge fund with a $200 million investment from New Zealand\u2019s sovereign-wealth fund that will seek to profit from bets on companies involved in takeovers.<\/p>\n<p>The merger-arbitrage fund began trading this month and is run by former Harvard money manager Mark McKenna, who oversees the firm\u2019s global event-driven strategy aimed at benefiting from takeovers, divestitures and management changes, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-13\/blackrock-s-mckenna-said-to-start-merger-arbitrage-hedge-fund\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) BlackRock Inc. has started a hedge fund with a $200 million investment from New Zealand\u2019s sovereign-wealth fund that will seek to profit from bets on companies involved in takeovers. The merger-arbitrage fund began trading this month and is run [&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-54351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54351","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=54351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54352,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54351\/revisions\/54352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}