{"id":76826,"date":"2021-01-07T01:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T06:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=76826"},"modified":"2021-01-07T01:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T06:05:51","slug":"prominent-activist-investors-post-record-2020-returns-despite-pandemic-muted-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2021\/prominent-activist-investors-post-record-2020-returns-despite-pandemic-muted-activity.html","title":{"rendered":"Prominent activist investors post record 2020 returns despite pandemic-muted activity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Some investors including William Ackman and Glenn Welling, who push corporations to perform better, posted record-breaking returns in 2020 when activist investors generally backed off demands during a year marked by wild and unexpected business conditions. Ackman\u2019s publicly traded Pershing Square Holdings fund rose 70.2%, marking the best-ever return at his 16-year-old firm Pershing Square Capital Management and one of the best in the hedge fund industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/hedgefunds-activist\/prominent-activist-investors-post-record-2020-returns-despite-pandemic-muted-activity-idUSL1N2JH2NO\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Some investors including William Ackman and Glenn Welling, who push corporations to perform better, posted record-breaking returns in 2020 when activist investors generally backed off demands during a year marked by wild and unexpected business conditions. Ackman\u2019s publicly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76826","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=76826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76827,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76826\/revisions\/76827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}