{"id":4214,"date":"2006-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"deutsche-boerse-ex-chief-seifert-attacks-locust-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2006\/deutsche-boerse-ex-chief-seifert-attacks-locust-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Boerse Ex-Chief Seifert Attacks `Locust&#8217; Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  April 3 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Werner Seifert, who quit as chief executive officer of Deutsche Boerse AG less than a year ago, compares the investors who pushed for his departure to a plague of locusts in  a book published today.<\/p>\n<p>  Seifert reserves his harshest criticism in &#8220;The Invasion of the Locusts&#8221; (Econ Verlag, 266 pages) for Christopher Hohn, the manager of TCI Fund Management Ltd. and one of the Deutsche Boerse  investors who foiled Seifert&#8217;s plan to acquire London Stock Exchange Plc.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Instead of playing a fair game with us, he didn&#8217;t even tell us whether he was playing chess, skat, poker or bridge,&#8221; Seifert, now 56, writes. Hohn didn&#8217;t immediately return a telephone call  seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=  \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news%3Fpid%3D10000088%26sid%3Da5cn0vmYnZXY%26refer%3Dculture&amp;cid=1105546586\"><strong>Read  Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 3 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Werner Seifert, who quit as chief executive officer of Deutsche Boerse AG less than a year ago, compares the investors who pushed for his departure to a plague of locusts in a book published today. Seifert [&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":[],"class_list":["post-4214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}