{"id":5872,"date":"2007-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"abn-amro-takes-shareholders-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2007\/abn-amro-takes-shareholders-demands.html","title":{"rendered":"ABN Amro takes shareholders demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>  Amsterdam (AFX) &#8211; <strong>ABN Amro Holding NV<\/strong> said it takes suggestions from shareholders seriously, but refused to comment further on speculation that hedge funds Polygon and Centaurus  have built up a stake in the Dutch bank and are supporting the demands of activist shareholder TCI (The Children&#8217;s Investment Fund) to split up the company.<\/p>\n<p>  ABN Amro (nyse: <a class=\"maintkrlink\" href=\"http:\/\/finapps.forbes.com\/finapps\/jsp\/finance\/compinfo\/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=ABN\">ABN<\/a> &#8211; <a href=  \"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/markets\/company_news.jhtml?ticker=ABN\">news<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/peopletracker\/results.jhtml?startRow=0&amp;name=&amp;ticker=ABN\">people<\/a> ) spokesman Neil  Moorhouse said the bank &#8216;always takes suggestions and comments from shareholders seriously&#8217;, adding that it treats shareholders with respect and seeks open dialogue with markets and shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>  He refused to comment further, though, on a report in Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad &#8212; which cited unnamed sources &#8212; that Polygon and Centaurus are rumoured to have built up a stake in ABN Amro  and are supporting TCI&#8217;s demands.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/markets\/feeds\/afx\/2007\/03\/27\/afx3554647.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amsterdam (AFX) &#8211; ABN Amro Holding NV said it takes suggestions from shareholders seriously, but refused to comment further on speculation that hedge funds Polygon and Centaurus have built up a stake in the Dutch bank and are supporting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}