{"id":70478,"date":"2019-08-11T00:30:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T04:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=70478"},"modified":"2019-08-12T23:15:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:15:33","slug":"hedge-fund-elliott-hires-goldman-partner-barg-as-head-of-corporate-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2019\/hedge-fund-elliott-hires-goldman-partner-barg-as-head-of-corporate-engagement.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund Elliott hires Goldman partner Barg as head of corporate engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Elliott Management, one of the world\u2019s busiest activist investors, has hired a Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) partner as its head of corporate engagement as the hedge fund continues to push companies around the globe to perform better. Steven Barg spent nearly a decade at Goldman and most recently defended corporations against hedge funds like Elliott as the investment bank\u2019s global head of activism and shareholder advisory. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hedgefunds-elliott\/hedge-fund-elliott-hires-goldman-partner-barg-as-head-of-corporate-engagement-idUSKCN1UZ2GE\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Elliott Management, one of the world\u2019s busiest activist investors, has hired a Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) partner as its head of corporate engagement as the hedge fund continues to push companies around the globe to perform better. [&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-70478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70478","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=70478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70479,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70478\/revisions\/70479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}