{"id":7421,"date":"2008-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-drinks-to-pubs-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2008\/hedge-fund-drinks-to-pubs-combination.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund drinks to pubs combination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph.co.uk &#8211; Marshall Wace, one of the City&#8217;s biggest hedge funds, is to continue pressing for a combination of the managed pubs businesses of Punch Taverns and Mitchells &amp; Butlers despite last week&#8217;s withdrawal of a proposal to merge the two.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall Wace is understood to have trimmed its 6 per cent shareholding in Punch, which has a portfolio of nearly 8,500 pubs, and increased its stake in M&amp;B on Friday, according to people familiar with the hedge fund. The changes to its shareholdings are likely to be revealed in Stock Exchange announcements by both pub companies tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2008\/03\/30\/cnwace130.xml\" target=\"_self\">Read Complete Article <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph.co.uk &#8211; Marshall Wace, one of the City&#8217;s biggest hedge funds, is to continue pressing for a combination of the managed pubs businesses of Punch Taverns and Mitchells &amp; Butlers despite last week&#8217;s withdrawal of a proposal to merge the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}