{"id":4254,"date":"2006-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"new-hedge-fund-sees-more-ma-potential-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2006\/new-hedge-fund-sees-more-ma-potential-in-europe.html","title":{"rendered":"New hedge fund sees more M&#038;A potential in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters Italia &#8211; Platinum Capital Management has launched a hedge fund to focus on European, mainly French, stocks which could benefit from takeover and demerger activity, its managing director saidon Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>  The launch comes at a time when corporate activity in Europe has seen nearly $400 billion (230 billion pounds) thrown at deals in the first quarter of this year, boosting stock prices by an  estimated 8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;I think you&#8217;ve got a good few more years of corporate activity &#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t say it&#8217;s coming to an end,&#8221; Platinum&#8217;s Managing Director Craig Reeves told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;There is so much more money in private equity and hedge funds that five years ago didn&#8217;t exist &#8230; They are snapping up more and more firms all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/2-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.borsaitaliana.reuters.it\/news\/newsArticle.aspx%3Ftype%3DfundsNewsUK%26storyID%3D2006-04-11T111113Z_01_NOA140202_RTRUKOC_0_FINANCIAL-HEDGE-PLATINUM.xml%26archived%3DFalse&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=pZY7RIS5NYfOpwLru6G9Dg\">ReadComplete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters Italia &#8211; Platinum Capital Management has launched a hedge fund to focus on European, mainly French, stocks which could benefit from takeover and demerger activity, its managing director saidon Tuesday. The launch comes at a time when corporate activity [&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-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","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=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}