{"id":63584,"date":"2018-05-07T00:06:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T04:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63584"},"modified":"2018-05-09T00:29:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T04:29:59","slug":"ex-everest-hedge-fund-managers-turn-activists-on-japan-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2018\/ex-everest-hedge-fund-managers-turn-activists-on-japan-stock.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Everest Hedge Fund Managers Turn Activists on Japan Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Volta Global, the family office run by former managers of hedge fund firm Everest Capital, has turned to activism in Japan.   Miami-based Volta\u2019s first target is a small construction company: it\u2019s asking Asanuma Corp. to spend 10 billion yen ($92 million) on a special dividend or share buyback, and to hand over all its profit for the current financial year to shareholders, according to a March 19 letter to the Japanese company that Volta provided to Bloomberg. Volta also urged Osaka-based Asanuma to publish more information in English.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-05-06\/ex-everest-hedge-fund-managers-turn-activists-on-japanese-stock\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Volta Global, the family office run by former managers of hedge fund firm Everest Capital, has turned to activism in Japan. Miami-based Volta\u2019s first target is a small construction company: it\u2019s asking Asanuma Corp. to spend 10 billion yen [&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-63584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63584","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=63584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63585,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63584\/revisions\/63585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}