{"id":66050,"date":"2018-10-05T00:06:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T04:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=66050"},"modified":"2018-10-05T00:06:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T04:06:10","slug":"muddy-waters-shorts-manulife-on-risks-in-hedge-fund-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2018\/muddy-waters-shorts-manulife-on-risks-in-hedge-fund-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Muddy Waters Shorts Manulife on Risks in Hedge Fund Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Muddy Waters has found its latest target: Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Corp. Short seller Carson Block, who runs Muddy Waters, announced a short position in the firm Thursday, and said its life-insurance subsidiary just concluded a trial with a hedge fund that could lead to billions in losses. Block expects a verdict this year. Manulife said in a statement that it disagrees with Block\u2019s conclusions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-10-04\/muddy-waters-carson-block-shorts-canadian-insurer-manulife\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Muddy Waters has found its latest target: Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Corp. Short seller Carson Block, who runs Muddy Waters, announced a short position in the firm Thursday, and said its life-insurance subsidiary just concluded a trial with a [&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-66050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66050","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=66050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66051,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66050\/revisions\/66051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}