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Not exact matches

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.

It's a shift from nine years ago, when the best paid hedge funder was an activist investor who had lived and breathed finance for most of his career.

HOUSTON, April 4 - Activist investor Carl Icahn said on Wednesday he plans to nominate directors who would push for a sale of SandRidge Energy Inc and may make an offer himself for the embattled Oklahoma City oil and gas producer.

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.

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.

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.

The Sharpie maker's agreement with Starboard comes with an assist from another activist investor, billionaire Carl Icahn, who will give up two of his four seats on the board.

That put him on the opposite side of the table from activist investor Carl Icahn, who turned into Herbalife's largest shareholder even as Ackman mounted a campaign against the company.

Among the others who could be out big bucks are the funds of John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market, and activist investor Jeff Ubben, whose ValueAct fund had been selling shares of Valeant this year but still owned nearly 15 million shares of the company as of the middle of 2015.

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.

Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor who has made a career of pushing companies to make changes to boost shares, published a letter to Apple Inc..

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.

«Despite the continued support of attacks by activist hedge funds by the Chair of the SEC, and many «Chicago school» academics who continue to rely on discredited statistics, there is growing recognition by institutional investors and prominent «new school» economists of the threat to corporations and their shareholders and to the economy of these attacks -LSB-...]

This article discusses activist investors who are increasingly gaining control of legacy corporations, forcing them to trim payrolls -LSB-...]

Ackman has said ADP is «very inefficient,» while Rodriguez has compared the activist investor's efforts to that of a «spoiled brat» who «doesn't know what he's talking about.»

He stepped off the board of eBay in March 2014 after public battles with Carl Icahn, an activist investor who pushed for the company to split with PayPal, its payments unit.

The proposed «Bring Business to Texas and Fairness in Disclosure Act» (the «Texas Act») is purportedly intended to «foster and promote the immediate and full disclosure of the individual ownership of persons who are activist investors» and «prohibit discrimination by a proxy advisory firm.»

Fellow billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who famously had a war of words with Ackman on CNBC in 2013, took the other side of Herbalife trade.

The Texas Act would apply to any person who (i) beneficially owns any securities of a «Texas - based public company» (defined as a publicly traded company whose «headquarters» are located in Texas) and (ii) is an «activist investor» (defined as any person who directly or indirectly nominates or attempts to nominate directors or makes or attempts to make a shareholder proposal with respect to the company).

In addition, any person who could potentially become an activist investor of a Texas - based public company and who solicits money from an investor must, before accepting money and at least once each year, provide written notice to any such prospective investor stating that it could potentially become subject to these rules and a copy of the Texas Act.

Icahn Enterprises is the conglomerate that represents the holdings of «Icahn - ic» activist investor Carl Icahn, who owns over 90 percent of the company.

In keeping with our penchant for stories about idiosyncratic investors who trade in odd securities found off the beaten track, we bring you perhaps the best unknown activist investment of 2009.

The most public face of deep value investing is Carl Icahn, known for his «battering - ram personality,» who has had a long, storied career as a discount options broker, arbitrageur and liquidator of closed - end mutual funds, corporate raider, and activist investor.

Investor and blogger Saj Karsan, who runs the excellent Barel Karsan — Value Investing site, reviewed a copy of Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations.

When probabilistic thinking is applied to the proxy battle the activist investor, and those of us who rely on him to catalyze our deep value investments, gain a counterintuitive and valuable edge!

«We need activist investors» willing to challenge entrenched managers in underperforming companies — which he said even Vanguard and rival BlackRock, who each control about 5 percent of all U.S. stock, are unwilling to do in a meaningful way, because they won't risk annoying corporate retirement managers who hire the firms to manage their billions.

Cohen, billionaire activist investor Daniel Loeb and money manager David Ganek were among the throngs of international collectors who stormed the fair on June 17 as VIPs got first dibs on works by modern masters and contemporary stars.

Cohen, billionaire activist investor Daniel Loeb and money manager David Ganek were among the throngs of international collectors who yesterday stormed the main art fair as VIPs got first dibs on works by modern masters and contemporary stars.

Pressure came from environmental activists, indigenous leaders and key institutional investors, including APG Asset Management and Dutch asset management firm Robeco, who all questioned the high risk, high cost of Arctic drilling.

The strongest criticism of investor engagement tends to come from activists who prefer divestment from fossil fuel interests.

The company seems to be caving to pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn who called for a sale of the mobile phone business, which is making a loss....

HBC has also come under pressure from activist investor Jonathan Litt of Land & Buildings Investment Management, who is urging the company to monetize some of its real estate holdings.

News of the review also came following the urging of activist investor Jonathan Litt, of Land & Buildings Investment Management LLC, who in April wrote that the sale of Forest City would attract the interest of many entities.