Sentences with phrase «on by activist investors»

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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.

Rather than circulating reports among fund managers and investors behind closed doors, so - called activist short sellers are adept at deploying «shock and awe» campaigns by publicizing information and allegations on Twitter.

The 69 - year - old railroad veteran stormed into Canadian Pacific in June 2012 after a proxy battle led by activist investor Bill Ackman and has made good on his promise to repair the underperforming company.

Tenet Healthcare, under pressure from an activist investor, said on Tuesday it would explore a sale of its Conifer unit, and increase the size of its plan to cut costs by $ 100 million by the end of 2018.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Newell Brands is avoiding a prolonged proxy battle by agreeing with activist investor Starboard Value on two new independent directors.

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.

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.

«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-...]

Duperreault arguably owes his new job to pressure put on AIG by activist investor Carl Icahn, who has been agitating for new management to join the company and move to split it up and sell the parts to unlock value for shareholders.

Rent - A-Center Inc (NASDAQ: RCII) has been under pressure from activist investors to explore a sale, and said in early April it plans on reaching a decision by the second quarter.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

Since last year, Americans Elect, a non-profit 501c4 organization led by investor and activist Peter Ackerman, has been quietly laying the foundation for a 2012 Internet - based political convention to pick a «centrist» ticket that will, if all goes to plan, get on all fifty state ballots and compete in a serious way with Barack Obama and whomever the GOP nominates next year.

Portect Our Democracy PAC, a political action committee founded over the summer by investor / activist Sean Eldridge, husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, to work in coordination with the Cuomo administration on campaign finance reform, is out with its first mailers of the election cycle in support of Democratic state Senate candidate Cecilia Tkacyzk.

A recent study conducted by April Klein and Emanuel Zur on shareholder activism found that stock prices of companies targeted by activist investors earn 10.2 % average returns during the period surrounding an activist's ownership disclosure and an additional 11.4 % abnormal return during the following year.

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Clinton Group, while being the activist on this company, wasn't by any means the largest institutional investor; Ariel Capital Management, Wells Fargo and Renaissance were much larger investors than Clinton Group.

By KARA SCANNELL and DAN FITZPATRICK In a major win for activist investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission plans to toss out decades - old rules in a move that will give activists significantly more power to determine who sits on corporate boards.

-LSB-...] recent study conducted by April Klein and Emanuel Zur on shareholder activism found that stock prices of companies targeted by activist investors earn 10.2 % average returns -LSB-...]

Not surprisingly, most of my efforts to seek out potential buyers, and / or other activist investors, will (by necessity) happen off - line — rest assured though, I'm already working on a promising target list of funds & firms.

Earlier this year, the company fended off an attempt by activist investor George Armoyan and his firm, Clarke Inc. (symbol CKI on Toronto), to place three of its nominees on Sherritt's board of directors.

Again, I would really appreciate feedback — especially on whether such voting power analyses are commonly applied either in the boardroom or by activist investors.

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.