{"id":61470,"date":"2017-12-21T00:49:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T05:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61470"},"modified":"2017-12-21T00:49:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T05:49:04","slug":"this-hedge-fund-activist-might-be-better-off-passive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2017\/this-hedge-fund-activist-might-be-better-off-passive.html","title":{"rendered":"This Hedge-Fund Activist Might Be Better Off Passive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) I\u2019ll say this for Mick McGuire, Activist Investor\u2122: The man knows how to make a buck. As 2017 winds down, his hedge fund, Marcato Capital Management LP, is up around 24 percent, five percentage points better than the S&#038;P 500 index. To put it another way, the 41-year old Bill Ackman protege is doing what hedge-fund guys are always striving for, but so often fall to accomplish: He\u2019s \u201ccreating alpha.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-12-19\/this-hedge-fund-activist-might-be-better-off-passive\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) I\u2019ll say this for Mick McGuire, Activist Investor\u2122: The man knows how to make a buck. As 2017 winds down, his hedge fund, Marcato Capital Management LP, is up around 24 percent, five percentage points better than the S&#038;P [&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-61470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61470","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=61470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61471,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61470\/revisions\/61471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}