Sentences with phrase «of activist investors in»

The first trend is the increased presence of activist investors in the REIT space.

In support of this argument I cite the recent experiences of activist investors in Japan, and Bildersee, Cheh and Zutshi's The performance of Japanese common stocks in relation to their net current asset values (yes, it supports both sides of the argument).

In support of this argument I cite the recent experiences of activist investors in Japan, and Bildersee, Cheh and Zutshi's The performance of Japanese common stocks in relation to -LSB-...]

I believe that this phenomenon led to the emergence of activist investors in the small cap sector over the last decade.

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MILAN, April 23 - A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

The purchase of the stake means Starboard will become the second activist investor within months to push for a change in strategy.

Procter & Gamble (pg) waged a number of battles last year with activist investor Nelson Peltz, who succeeded in gaining a board seat after months of fighting.

Activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital — a business partner with Valeant in its failed bid last year for Allergan — offered a spirited defence of the company in a conference call Friday that lasted nearly four hours.

He points to activist investors as a particular thorn in the side of management, forcing it to focus on quarter - to - quarter earnings and giving up board seats instead of investing in research and development.

In honor of Equal Pay Day 2018, Fortune sat down with the activist investor to talk about how — and why — she engages with companies on the issue of pay equity.

In after - hours trading on Tuesday, Panera's shares rose about 4 %, while Buffalo's grew 5.3 %, as that stock continues to benefit from a jolt in the wake of interest from an activist investoIn after - hours trading on Tuesday, Panera's shares rose about 4 %, while Buffalo's grew 5.3 %, as that stock continues to benefit from a jolt in the wake of interest from an activist investoin the wake of interest from an activist investor.

P&G is in the crosshairs of activist investor Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management, which — with its roughly $ 3 billion stake in the consumer goods giant — is waging the biggest proxy fight in history for a seat on its board.

The company has been a fancy of activist investors such as Pershing Square's William Ackman, who sold the stake after spending 18 months trying to repair the company and suffering more than $ 3 billion in losses.

Ackman, one of the industry's most prominent activist investors, said in January that redemption requests had been modest late last year when losses were already piling up.

Costs are both financial, including listing fees and the expenses associated with mandatory disclosures and other regulatory requirements, and less tangible, such as the perceived burden of quarterly earnings releases, the risk of being targeted by activist investors, and higher visibility that can result in political or competitive pressure.

Among the lowlights of the retailer's continuing, soap - operatic slide in 2013: CEO Ron Johnson resigned in April after all of 16 months on the job; the company had to apologize to customers for alienating them with new store concepts; and activist investor Bill Ackman, who stepped down from the board in August, swallowed a $ 470 million loss upon selling his Penney's stake.

In his all - out fight against Herbalife, is the activist investor assuming the role of judge, jury, and executioner?

Pandora has been urged to explore a sale by Corvex Management LP, a hedge fund run by Keith Meister, a protégé of activist investor Carl Icahn, after it disclosed a 9.9 percent stake in Pandora in May.

Valeant, backed by activist investor Bill Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital Investment holds some 10 per cent of Allergan stock, originally announced its takeover bid back in April and has since boosted it twice to some US$ 53 billion.

Shortly after Elliott's investment in TIM became known, state lender CDP bought a 4.8 percent stake, a move seen as political endorsement of the activist investor.

The U.S. market, where investors like Singer, Boone Pickens and Carl Icahn sprang up in the 1970s and 1980s, has a long history of so - called «activists».

As if Nooyi wasn't facing enough pressure, she soon had to contend with a major activist investor: Nelson Peltz, who took a stake in the company and began agitating for PepsiCo to undo its merger of Pepsi and Frito - Lay, just as Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by Peltz.

Bryant's departure follows a pattern that we've now seen repeated in the industry: Longtime CEOs are stepping aside as they battle activist investors, the pressure to implement the 3G - backed Kraft Heinz model of cost cutting, consumers eschewing their processed products, and pressure to slash their prices from retailers fending off Amazon (amzn).

Buoyed by an unquenchable thirst for short - term stock gains, traders and activist investors are mounting pressure on a wide array of companies to cut research and capital expenditures in order to increase stock buybacks and thus boost stock prices.

Elliott had originally invested in the obscure financial stock as part of an arbitrage trade, but when a colleague saw that the company was laying groundwork to shield itself from activist investors, he went across the hall to Cohn for the first time.

MILAN, April 23 (Reuters)- A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia (TIM) and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

The activist investor appeared from the sidelines of 13D Monitor's Annual Active - Passive Investor Summit in New Yoinvestor appeared from the sidelines of 13D Monitor's Annual Active - Passive Investor Summit in New YoInvestor Summit in New York City.

Carl Icahn, billionaire activist investor, waits for Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, to speak at an election night event in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 19, 2016.

In crafting it, she took into account board composition and tenure, capital ratio and compensation, working down a checklist of anything and everything that might make the company an attractive target for activist investors.

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

The mixed sales results for its fiscal first quarter are likely to give both sides of the ongoing fight between P&G and activist investor Nelson Peltz ammunition in their continued war of words.

Investor activist Carl Icahn has submitted an advisory proposal asking Apple to increase the size of its stock buyback program in 2014 to $ 50 billion.

In this special report, we identify and provide specific examples of the red flags you should be on the lookout for when activist investors begin building a large position in a companIn this special report, we identify and provide specific examples of the red flags you should be on the lookout for when activist investors begin building a large position in a companin a company.

A stake purchase by the activist investor could add friction in a potential merger of the $ 53 bln software company with its controlling shareholder Dell.

It was an apparent win for the activist investor, who recently exited his $ 1 billion short position in Herbalife that likely cost his firm hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the Journal.

Meanwhile, ASIC chairman James Shipton told The Australian Financial Review Banking & Wealth Summit the regulator was highly attuned to the fact the interests and actions of global investors intersected with the Australian market, in response to a question posed about activist shorts zeroing - in on Australian companies.

Activist investor Nelson Peltz holds a $ 1.6 billion stake in DD and believes a breakup of the company will unlock shareholder value.

The fact that I can make so much money as an activist investor shows that something's wrong with governance in most of corporate America.

In 2013 an activist investor criticized the board at ConMed for a «culture of nepotism, patronage, and dystopian corporate governance.»

That goal has come to the fore in some high - profile cases of late as activist investors have demanded that executives share the wealth — or risk being unseated.

With many categories of institutional investors thus eliminated as potential activists, we are left mainly with union and state and local pension funds, which in fact generally have been the most active institutions with respect to corporate governance issues.

One of the largest activist investors in the world is taking on his biggest target yet.

Meanwhile, MSCI will sort of function like an activist investor, pushing China to liberalize its stock market if it wants a higher weighting in the MSCI indexes.

A fall in shares in Sage Group PLC was also dragging on the FTSE 100 index, but a surge for Costa Coffee parent Whitbread PLC on news of an activist investor stake helped limit the drop.

Activist investor techniques, both short and long term, will increasingly be adopted by traditional money managers in pursuit of alpha.

A powerful activist investor group called for Mark Zuckerberg to step down in a statement today, citing new admissions of irresponsibility in the CEO's planned testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Activist investor Carl Icahn plans to nominate a slate of directors for Oklahoma - based SandRidge Energy, he and various investment vehicles said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 4.

Activist investors had success in prompting GM to return money to shareholders in the form of $ 5 billion in share buybacks.

The company, which has seen its revenues fall sharply in recent years, has become a target of activist investors amid its struggles.

Activist investor Nelson Peltz is in the middle of an expensive proxy battle to force changes at the company.