Keyword(s): Shareholder Activism
08/05/10
When activists and corporates collide from TheDeal TV on Vimeo.
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04/15/10
06:20:52 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
, 175 words 
Categories: Corporate Governance, Academic
Renneboog, Luc and Szilagyi, Peter G., Shareholder Activism Through the Proxy Process (December 15, 2009). CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2009-65; ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 275/2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1460578Abstr… more »
04/05/08
06:46:27 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 300 words
Categories: Stock Market, Corporate Finance, Various
Read the proposals of Olivant chief Luqman Arnold on the bank he used to head, in the full letter sent to UBS vice-chairman Sergio Marchionne:
"Dear Mr Marchionne
I am writing to you in your capacity as the sole non-executive member of the Chairman’s… more »
03/13/08
Working paper found in the working paper section of the Bank of Japan homepage:
US Barbarians at the Japan Gate: Cross Border Hedge Fund Activism, Konari Uchida, Peng Xu, Bank of Japan February 2008
"...The current dysfunctional Japanese banking… more »
02/26/08
Sonntagszeitung, Publigroupe heisst Laxey willkommen, Feb. 24, 2008 Der britische Hedge Fund mit dem Schweizer Investmentchef Roger Bühler hat wieder für eine Überraschung gesorgt. Am Freitagabend wurde bekannt, dass er mit 4,98 Prozent bei der in Lausan… more »
10/26/07
Shareholder Activism among Portfolio Managers: Rational Decisions or 15 Minutes of Fame? Lars L. Norden (Stockholm University - School of Business), Therese Strand (Stockholm University - School of Business),May 2, 2007
Find above a link to a paper wh… more »
10/22/07
03:43:54 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 164 words
Categories: Corporate Governance, Investment
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control, Marcel Kahan, Edward B. Rock, New York University Law School, 2007
Hedge Funds have become the prime corporate governance and control activists. They pursue activism as a profit-making str… more »
10/08/07
Hedge Funds vs. Private Equity Funds as Shareholder Activists – Differences in Value Creation, M. Mietzner, D. Schweizer, European Business School (Germany),September 2007
Attached paper analyzes market reactions triggered by announcements that he… more »
07/27/07
We have read today in the press again (after the bad news about two Bears Stearns hedge funds) that a hedge fund managed by the Australian arm of ABN Amro is financially distressed due to the subprime loan crisis. Such events will harm the image of the w… more »
06/22/07
An activist shareholder is one who uses an equity stake in a corporation not simply as an item within a portfolio but as an opportunity to redefine and redirect the management of that corporation. Very often activist shareholder's have only a small minor… more »
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