{"id":67606,"date":"2019-01-21T00:04:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T05:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67606"},"modified":"2019-01-23T00:14:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T05:14:37","slug":"hedge-fund-can-give-olympus-a-clearer-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2019\/hedge-fund-can-give-olympus-a-clearer-focus.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Can Give Olympus a Clearer Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Given its history of controversy, the camera and medical-device maker\u2019s embrace of ValueAct is encouraging. Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Olympus Corp. investors appear willing to bet so. Shares of the camera and medical-device maker, which was mired in a $1.7 billion accounting scandal in 2011, have surged to their highest in almost three years after the Japanese company announced a leadership and board shakeup in response to pressure from U.S. hedge fund ValueAct Capital Management.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-01-16\/olympus-embrace-of-hedge-fund-valueact-is-encouraging\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Given its history of controversy, the camera and medical-device maker\u2019s embrace of ValueAct is encouraging. Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Olympus Corp. investors appear willing to bet so. Shares of the camera and medical-device maker, 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-67606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67606","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=67606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67607,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67606\/revisions\/67607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}