{"id":69420,"date":"2019-05-27T00:12:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T04:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=69420"},"modified":"2019-05-29T01:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T05:48:13","slug":"d-e-shaws-top-shareholder-activist-koffey-leaves-hedge-fund-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2019\/d-e-shaws-top-shareholder-activist-koffey-leaves-hedge-fund-2.html","title":{"rendered":"D.E. Shaw&#8217;s Top Shareholder Activist Koffey Leaves Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) Hedge fund manager Quentin Koffey, who joined D.E. Shaw &#038; Co two years ago from Elliott Management Corp to lead its shareholder activism strategy, has left to join Senator Investment Group LP, the firms told Reuters on Thursday. The move is a setback for D.E. Shaw, which is seeking to emulate Elliott as a generalist hedge fund with strong activist leanings, advocating for major changes at companies, such as putting themselves up for sale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hedgefunds-d-e-shaw-moves\/d-e-shaws-top-shareholder-activist-koffey-leaves-hedge-fund-idUSKCN1ST2V2\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge fund manager Quentin Koffey, who joined D.E. Shaw &#038; Co two years ago from Elliott Management Corp to lead its shareholder activism strategy, has left to join Senator Investment Group LP, the firms told Reuters on Thursday. The [&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-69420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69420","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=69420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69421,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69420\/revisions\/69421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}