{"id":8383,"date":"2008-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-gets-all-of-its-ducks-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/hedge-fund-gets-all-of-its-ducks-in-a-row.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund gets all of its ducks in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Herald &#8211; Eyebrows were raised this week when New York hedge- fund Elliott International nominated two Kiwi businessman &#8211; including recently appointed Infratil director Mark Tume &#8211; to join the Telecom board.<\/p>\n<p>Telecom is on the fringes of the media world but National Party proposals for a huge broadband rollout will have an enormous impact on media and suggest Telecom will have a big role in media infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>And Elliott&#8217;s press release &#8211; linking the nomination of Tume and Mark Cross to Elliott&#8217;s calls for a wider structural break-up of Telecom &#8211; have added to questions about the way ahead for New Zealand&#8217;s biggest publicly listed company.<\/p>\n<p>Should Tume win a place on the board he would bolster the bridge between two big infrastructure companies &#8211; Telecom and Infratil.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/category\/story.cfm?c_id=93&#038;objectid=10527122\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Herald &#8211; Eyebrows were raised this week when New York hedge- fund Elliott International nominated two Kiwi businessman &#8211; including recently appointed Infratil director Mark Tume &#8211; to join the Telecom board. Telecom is on the fringes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2178,453,2179,2177],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-fortunes","tag-lt","tag-phrase","tag-private-client-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383","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=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}