{"id":61858,"date":"2018-01-18T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T05:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61858"},"modified":"2018-01-18T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T05:28:07","slug":"einhorns-greenlight-capital-adds-stakes-in-brighthouse-and-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2018\/einhorns-greenlight-capital-adds-stakes-in-brighthouse-and-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Einhorn\u2019s Greenlight Capital Adds Stakes in Brighthouse and Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) David Einhorn\u2019s Greenlight Capital is touting a new stake in Brighthouse Financial Inc., an annuities and life insurance company spun out of MetLife Inc. in August, as the hedge fund tries to rebound from a disappointing year.<\/p>\n<p>Brighthouse, which has more than $220 billion in assets, is a more capital-intensive operation than the businesses that MetLife kept, and is closely linked to fluctuations in financial markets. Analysts are \u201claser focused\u201d on the company\u2019s downside risks from a bear market, rendering them \u201ctoo pessimistic\u201d about the company\u2019s shares, Greenlight wrote in a quarterly letter to investors Tuesday seen by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-16\/greenlight-adds-brighthouse-twitter-after-frustrating-2017\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) David Einhorn\u2019s Greenlight Capital is touting a new stake in Brighthouse Financial Inc., an annuities and life insurance company spun out of MetLife Inc. in August, as the hedge fund tries to rebound from a disappointing year. Brighthouse, which [&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-61858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61858","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=61858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61859,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61858\/revisions\/61859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}