Sentences with phrase «activist money funding»

We can only hope that the other side is as diligent in discovering the extent of environmental activist money funding alarmist research.

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Activist hedge fund group Camber Capital Management has taken a 5.7 % stake in hospital chain Tenet Healthcare, which has been losing money amid declining patient admissions.

Camber Capital Management, a hedge fund with an activist history, has purchased 5.7 million shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp., or a 5.7 % stake in the money - losing hospital chain.The emergence of Camber was disclosed Monday, just three days after Tenet's largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, resigned two Tenet board seats, citing irreconcilable differences with management and the board.Glenview Capital, which owns an 18 % stake in Tenet, gave notice Friday that it would no longer participate in a stand - still agreement that had prevented it from launching a proxy fight for control of the company.Tenet investors welcomed the Camber disclosure Monday, driving up Tenet's stock price to $ 2.18, or 15 %, to $ 16.63 as of 12:30 p.m. ET.Tenet is the nation's third - largest investor - owned

We include corporate CEOs, the head of the Canadian public pension fund and an activist investor, and the heads of a number of institutional investors who manage money on behalf of a broad range of Americans.

Bill Gates» private foundation announced that it will spend $ 158 million to fight systemic poverty in the U.S.. On Thursday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said that it will spend the money on initiatives such as funding for community activists during the next four years.

You have activists, you have a lot of money managed passively and you have the index funds deferring often to ISS to make judgments, and nobody feels capable of separating the wheat from the chaff.

Also, the initial gains of certain companies that acted on activists» push for change have attracted more investor money into activist hedge funds.

We've already seen activists pour money into advocacy groups like Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, in the latter case funding a massive expansion of their work.

Patrick Nelson, a Stillwater - based activist, has made removing the corrosive influence of money in politics a central campaign theme, and has vowed not to accept funds from corporate PACs.

Long's campaign is hoping that her deep ties to conservative activists can help in the Republican primary against Representative Bob Turner and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, and that those ties might encourage ideological donors to support her with super PAC money against the better - funded campaign of Gillibrand.

However, under pressure from activists after openDemocracy revealed how Brexit campaigners were funnelling dark money through Northern Ireland to fund «Take Back Control» adverts, the Democratic Unionist Party was forced last night to reveal its major donor to be a group calling itself the Constitutional Research Council.

Some activists, though, said they are concerned that the United States will focus entirely on private - sector funding and will once again sidestep ways of raising public money, including from «innovative sources,» like a tax on bunker fuels or airline emissions.

If you're intrigued by the strategy, there's still the 13D Activist Fund (DDDAX) which has also lost money on that period but a lot less money.

Although animal rights activists have been fighting against animal testing in laboratories for many decades, not everyone realizes that taxpayers» hard - earned money is being used to fund cruel animal tests.

Spotted at Tuesday's V.I.P. opening were big - money collectors like Steven A. Cohen, the hedge fund billionaire; Daniel S. Loeb, the activist hedge fund manager and Sotheby's new board member; Mitchell P. Rales, the Washington industrialist, and his wife, Emily; Jerry I. Speyer, chairman of the Museum of Modern Art; and Daniel Brodsky, chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his wife, Estrellita, an independent curator.

James M. Taylor — Heartland.org — January 19, 2014 Global warming activists claim vast amounts of untraceable special - interest money fund global warming skeptics and give skeptics an unfair advantage in the global warming debate.

And now, mere months from the release of Part One of its the IPCC's brand new report, an institute run by its chairman is found to be funding its activities with activist money.

Well if oil money is corrupt and evil — and if green activists really believe that those who take it are nefarious and untrustworthy — why are there no websites analogous to Greenpeace's ExxonSecrets about the very long, very close relationship that the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has enjoyed with Shell (aka Royal Dutch Shell)?

Front page stories at The New York Times and The Washington Post have also highlighted Steyer's past investments in the fossil fuel industry and the profits accrued by the hedge fund he used to lead, noting the apparent inconsistency with his political advocacy.16, 17 Bill McKibben who helped inspire Steyer's opposition to the Keystone pipeline and who consults with the billionaire activist, offers an opposing perspective: «After years of watching rich people manipulate and wreck our political system for selfish personal interests, it's great to watch a rich person use his money and his talents in the public interest.»

A liberal Texas activist group asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold Hurricane Harvey relief funds and other grant monies from Houston until the City fully addresses policies that promote «racial discrimination and perpetuation of segregation.»

So why do so many climate activists appear to believe in the conspiracy theory of the powerful, well organised, secretive, lavishly funded network of climate sceptics, when in fact all the money and organisation is on their side?

Tides has collected over $ 200 million since 1997, most of it from other foundations, and in turn uses that money to fund environmental activist campaigns.

That is why ONIWG is calling out to all injured workers, Unions, legal clinics and like - minded activists to help raise money for this «Legal Defence Fund.»

Certain activists had been putting pressure on Tims to boost returns through debt - funded share buybacks and to scale back in the U.S. Meanwhile, another had also issued a report recommending Tims pull out of the U.S., stop spending money, and borrow as much as they could and leverage the company.