{"id":63342,"date":"2018-04-22T00:05:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T04:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63342"},"modified":"2018-04-24T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T04:13:00","slug":"hedge-fund-elliott-turns-up-heat-on-vivendi-over-telecom-italia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2018\/hedge-fund-elliott-turns-up-heat-on-vivendi-over-telecom-italia.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Elliott Turns Up Heat on Vivendi Over Telecom Italia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Activist fund Elliott turned up the volume in its war of words with Vivendi over the French media group\u2019s defense of its strategy for Telecom Italia (TIM), only days before a fight for board seats at Italy\u2019s biggest phone group. Elliott, now TIM\u2019s second-largest investor with a 9 percent stake, is pushing for a shake-up of the way Vivendi has been running the Italian phone incumbent. It is seeking to replace six of Vivendi-nominated board members at a shareholder meeting on Tuesday to improve governance, valuation and strategy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-telecomitalia-elliott\/hedge-fund-elliott-turns-up-heat-on-vivendi-over-telecom-italia-idUSKBN1HQ0O0\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Activist fund Elliott turned up the volume in its war of words with Vivendi over the French media group\u2019s defense of its strategy for Telecom Italia (TIM), only days before a fight for board seats at Italy\u2019s biggest phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63342","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=63342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63343,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63342\/revisions\/63343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}