{"id":65349,"date":"2018-08-22T00:06:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T04:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65349"},"modified":"2018-08-21T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T02:35:08","slug":"activist-hedge-funds-arent-good-for-companies-or-investors-so-why-do-they-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/activist-hedge-funds-arent-good-for-companies-or-investors-so-why-do-they-exist.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist Hedge Funds Aren\u2019t Good for Companies or Investors, So Why Do They Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Harvard Business Review) Activist hedge funds have become capital market and financial media darlings. The Economist famously called them \u201ccapitalism\u2019s unlikely heroes\u201d in a cover story, and the FT published an article saying we \u201cshould welcome\u201d them\u2026..But they are utterly reviled by CEOs. And at best, their performance is ambiguous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/08\/activist-hedge-funds-arent-good-for-companies-or-investors-so-why-do-they-exist\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Harvard Business Review) Activist hedge funds have become capital market and financial media darlings. The Economist famously called them \u201ccapitalism\u2019s unlikely heroes\u201d in a cover story, and the FT published an article saying we \u201cshould welcome\u201d them\u2026..But they are utterly [&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-65349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65349","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=65349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65350,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65349\/revisions\/65350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}