{"id":56711,"date":"2017-02-22T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56711"},"modified":"2017-02-22T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:32:57","slug":"hedge-funds-cant-sue-over-investments-in-fannie-and-freddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2017\/hedge-funds-cant-sue-over-investments-in-fannie-and-freddie.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Can&#8217;t Sue Over Investments in Fannie and Freddie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Hedge funds largely failed in their legal challenge to the U.S. government\u2019s capture of billions of dollars in profits generated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after their bailout, sending shares of the mortgage guarantors plunging.<\/p>\n<p>Perry Capital LLC, the Fairholme Funds and other big investors lost a bid to overturn a judge\u2019s ruling that said they can\u2019t sue the government over the dividend change. The change known as the \u201cnet-worth sweep\u201d forced the companies to send almost all their profits to the U.S. Treasury, leaving shareholders with nothing. The companies have been under government control since being bailed out during the 2008 financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-02-21\/fannie-freddie-net-worth-sweep-case-affirmed-in-part-on-appeal\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds largely failed in their legal challenge to the U.S. government\u2019s capture of billions of dollars in profits generated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after their bailout, sending shares of the mortgage guarantors plunging. Perry Capital LLC, [&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-56711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56711","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=56711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56712,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56711\/revisions\/56712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}