{"id":9590,"date":"2009-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"tci-founder-partner-degorce-leaves-hedge-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/tci-founder-partner-degorce-leaves-hedge-firm.html","title":{"rendered":"TCI founder, partner Degorce leaves hedge firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Patrick Degorce, a founder and partner at high-profile activist hedge fund firm The Children&#8217;s Investment Fund (TCI), has left the company, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> Degorce was in the public eye in early 2007 when he wrote a high-profile letter on behalf of shareholder TCI to Dutch bank <span class=\"tickerlinx\">ABN Amro<\/span> criticising its &#8216;terrible shareholder return&#8217; and calling on it to look at a break-up, spin-off, sale or merger of units or the business as a whole. <\/p>\n<p>       ABN was later sold to a consortium led by <span class=\"tickerlinx\">Royal Bank of Scotland <\/span>for about 70 billion euros ($95.73 billion). <\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/afxnewslimited\/feeds\/afx\/2009\/01\/09\/afx5899896.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Patrick Degorce, a founder and partner at high-profile activist hedge fund firm The Children&#8217;s Investment Fund (TCI), has left the company, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday. Degorce was in the public eye in early 2007 when he [&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":[5426,1619,4697,1371,4513,465,5428,5425,3914,4326,600,5424,343,5427],"class_list":["post-9590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-abn-amro","tag-activist","tag-consortium","tag-dutch-bank","tag-forbes","tag-investment-fund","tag-merger","tag-profile-letter","tag-public-eye","tag-reuters","tag-royal-bank-of-scotland","tag-shareholder-return","tag-spokeswoman","tag-tci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590","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=9590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}