{"id":60014,"date":"2017-09-20T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=60014"},"modified":"2017-09-20T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:58:11","slug":"stumbling-isnt-humbling-for-this-hedge-fund-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2017\/stumbling-isnt-humbling-for-this-hedge-fund-guy.html","title":{"rendered":"Stumbling Isn&#8217;t Humbling for This Hedge-Fund Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) In our last episode of \u201cMick McGuire: Activist Investor,\u201d our hero was flying high.   It was early June, and the young hedge-fund manager, who earlier in his career had played Robin to Bill Ackman\u2019s Batman, 1  had made a kill of his own, winning a proxy battle against Buffalo Wild Wings Inc., the struggling restaurant\/sports bar chain. In launching the proxy fight, McGuire 2  promised the company\u2019s investors that he had a plan that would double or triple the stock price, including selling off company-owned restaurants to franchisees, improving \u201cthe four-wall margins of the company units,\u201d and \u201callocating capital efficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-09-19\/stumbling-isn-t-humbling-for-this-hedge-fund-guy\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) In our last episode of \u201cMick McGuire: Activist Investor,\u201d our hero was flying high. It was early June, and the young hedge-fund manager, who earlier in his career had played Robin to Bill Ackman\u2019s Batman, 1 had made a [&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-60014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60014","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=60014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60015,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60014\/revisions\/60015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}