{"id":74487,"date":"2020-06-14T00:15:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T04:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=74487"},"modified":"2020-06-16T01:44:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T05:44:41","slug":"hedge-fund-elliott-management-shifts-to-elephant-hunting-as-fund-size-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2020\/hedge-fund-elliott-management-shifts-to-elephant-hunting-as-fund-size-balloons.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund Elliott Management shifts to elephant hunting as fund size balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Until fairly recently, activist hedge fund Elliott Management\u2019s core technology investing strategy was pretty straightforward: Target a smallish company known for selling software to businesses, agitate for a sale &#8212; sometimes by offering to buy the company &#8212; and profit when a buyer came along. Some of the targets were well-known within particular tech sector niches, like BMC, Novell and Informatica, but none were giants or household names. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/06\/14\/hedge-fund-elliott-management-shifts-to-elephant-hunting.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Until fairly recently, activist hedge fund Elliott Management\u2019s core technology investing strategy was pretty straightforward: Target a smallish company known for selling software to businesses, agitate for a sale &#8212; sometimes by offering to buy the company &#8212; and [&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-74487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74487","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=74487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74488,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74487\/revisions\/74488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}