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Activist Hedge Fund Buys $2 Billion Worth Of Microsoft
A Microsoft spokesperson gave us this comment on ValueAct: "Microsoft’s Board of Directors and mana…
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An Activist Hedge Fund Manager Has A Coffee Mug Specially Designed To Intimidate CEOs
A partner at one activist hedge fund, based in New York, has a mug he likes to use during talks wit…
Julia La Roche
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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are going after activist hedge funds
"We cannot allow our economy to be hijacked by a small group of investors who seek only to enrich t…
Portia Crowe
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Activist hedge fund JANA Partners is going after Qualcomm
According to the Journal, which cites an investor letter, JANA is urging the company to spin off it…
Julia La Roche
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Two Hedge Fund Vets Are Joining Forces To Create An Activist Fund With Serious Chops
Cumberland Associates is different - it's a deep value fund that has produced a 14.5% annualized re…
Linette Lopez
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Dropbox soars on report that activist hedge fund Elliott Management has a 10% stake in the company
Dropbox stock soared as much as 8% on Wednesday after WSJ reported that Elliott Management has a 10…
Will Daniel
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American Companies Have Basically Been Asking For Activist Hedge Funds To Take Their Money
However, on the issues that fall into the domicile of Board oversight, our assessment is less glowi…
Linette Lopez
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Hedge funds are shaking up corporate America and Wall Street couldn't be happier
Most banks won't work for the activists themselves (at least not openly), for fear of alienating th…
Jonathan Marino
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Some of the biggest hedge fund names are getting scorched
Hedge funds fell 2.76% on average in January, according to data from Hedge Fund Research. The S&…
Julia La Roche
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Why It Seems Every Hedge Fund Wants To Go Activist On Companies These Days In One Chart
Carl Icahn's on his soap box about Apple, Paul Singer's going after Juniper, and it seems like new …
Linette Lopez
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The activist fund that shook up Yahoo is crushing it
Starboard's next biggest stock positions are Marvell Technology Group, Advance Auto Parts, The Brin…
Rachael Levy
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Nelson Peltz took a big share in Procter & Gamble - and P&G's stock is soaring
Peltz said in December that he had taken a new position but did not disclose which company it was i…
Portia Crowe
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The activist hedge fund that took on Exxon announced a stake in GM, putting its weight behind the car maker's EV vision
Engine No. 1 sees value in investing in General Motors, which has been increasing investment in its…
Carla Mozée
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GOLDMAN: Everyone's an activist investor these days
The growth of activist AUM over the past seven to eight years has essentially created its own asset…
Bob Bryan
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Activist hedge fund Starboard met with Pfizer last week. Here's what went down.
The 74-page slideshow, which Smith said was "roughly" the same as the one shared with the company, …
Alex Nicoll,Kaja Whitehouse
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An activist hedge fund has amassed a $400 million stake in yogurt maker Danone
Corvex recently bought a $400 million stake in Danone - known in the US for its Dannon subsidiary -…
Alex Morrell
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Warren Buffett dumped all over hedge funds for a promise that lasts long enough to get them rich
Investors have gravitated toward the activists lately. Those funds saw significant inflows at the b…
Julia La Roche
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One change made life a lot easier for activist investors - and opened the floodgates
Changes in the SEC proxy rules described above also mean that companies are increasingly influenced…
Tina Wadhwa
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Everyone is asking the wrong question about hedge fund performance
"It used to be in the early 2000s, hedge fund managers would say, 'I'd make money in all environmen…
Julia La Roche
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Dan Loeb is out of the red
Despite a difficult quarter for our portfolio, we are optimistic about what we own: a mostly U.S.-c…