{"id":77313,"date":"2021-02-22T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=77313"},"modified":"2021-02-21T22:15:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T03:15:36","slug":"activist-investor-elliott-to-buy-stake-in-insurer-principal-financial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2021\/activist-investor-elliott-to-buy-stake-in-insurer-principal-financial.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist investor Elliott to buy stake in insurer Principal Financial:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters) Activist investor Elliott Management Corp has taken a stake in Principal Financial Group Inc and plans to push for changes at the life Insurance company, Bloomberg reported late on Sunday, citing sources. The New York-based hedge fund is nearing a deal that will grant it seats on Principal Financial&#8217;s board and plans to launch a strategic review of the insurer&#8217;s portfolio that could include a sale of part of the business<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/principal-fincl-elliot-stake\/activist-investor-elliott-to-buy-stake-in-insurer-principal-financial-bloomberg-news-idUSL4N2KS0UG\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Activist investor Elliott Management Corp has taken a stake in Principal Financial Group Inc and plans to push for changes at the life Insurance company, Bloomberg reported late on Sunday, citing sources. The New York-based hedge fund is nearing [&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-77313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77313","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=77313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77314,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77313\/revisions\/77314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}