{"id":49761,"date":"2015-08-31T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=49761"},"modified":"2015-08-31T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:12:27","slug":"top-hedge-fund-moves-a-look-at-emanuel-friedman-daniel-ochs-bullish-moves-in-small-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2015\/top-hedge-fund-moves-a-look-at-emanuel-friedman-daniel-ochs-bullish-moves-in-small-caps.html","title":{"rendered":"Top Hedge Fund Moves: A Look At Emanuel Friedman & Daniel Och’s Bullish Moves in Small Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Benzinga) Tracking hedge funds moves is central to many investment strategies, as it may provide with interesting, research-backed ideas. Emanuel J. Friedman\u2019s EJF Capital is bullish on micro-cap bank holding company Westfield Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFD). On Friday, the fund disclosed that it had more than doubled its exposure to the stock.<\/p>\n

The firm had declared holding 456,082 as of the end of the last reported quarter \u2013 second quarter of 2015. However, in its latest 13G filing, EJF acknowledged beneficial ownership of 949,169 shares of the company\u2019s Common Stock, representing 5.13 percent of the total shares outstanding.<\/p>\n

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(Benzinga) Tracking hedge funds moves is central to many investment strategies, as it may provide with interesting, research-backed ideas. Emanuel J. Friedman\u2019s EJF Capital is bullish on micro-cap bank holding company Westfield Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFD). On Friday, the fund […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49762,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761\/revisions\/49762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}