{"id":61529,"date":"2017-12-27T06:51:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T11:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61529"},"modified":"2017-12-27T06:52:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T11:52:33","slug":"activist-investors-may-use-new-tax-law-to-push-for-big-stock-buybacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2017\/activist-investors-may-use-new-tax-law-to-push-for-big-stock-buybacks.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist Investors May Use New Tax Law to Push for Big Stock Buybacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(TheStreet.com) Activists typically pressure corporations with a lot of cash to launch a buyback or issue a special dividend&#8230;Activist investor Glenn Welling of Engaged Capital succeeded last year in getting two directors installed onto the board of Benchmark Electronics Inc.   Afterwards, the company installed a new CEO. Its share price has mostly been on an upward trajectory since, trading recently around $30 a share&#8230;..But now there is a new reason to be excited from an activist&#8217;s perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/14429578\/1\/tax-law-and-hedge-funds.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TheStreet.com) Activists typically pressure corporations with a lot of cash to launch a buyback or issue a special dividend&#8230;Activist investor Glenn Welling of Engaged Capital succeeded last year in getting two directors installed onto the board of Benchmark Electronics Inc. [&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-61529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61529","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=61529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61531,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61529\/revisions\/61531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}