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Use Caution When Investing With Ackman The activist investor's Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund history should play a role in your investment decision. |
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Proxy Fights 101 How shareholder skirmishes are transforming Wall Street. It's smart to understand how proxy fights work, but don't assume they're a good system for investing. Proxy battles often target struggling companies with volatile stocks. |
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Attack Of The Hungry Hedge Funds To hike stock prices, aggressive hedge fund managers are banding together to force changes on companies. |
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The Ultimate Fight Fund UBS's new unique hedge fund of funds is filled with the most agitating of managers such as Icahn and Peltz. |
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Will the SEC Protect Proxy Access? Investors of all stripes should keep an eye on next week's ruling. |
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Pershing Square Capital Portfolio: Bill Ackman's Top Holdings What can we learn from studying this activist investor's portfolio? |
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Getting Smaller, but Not Quieter If you thought hedge funds' troubles mean they'll give up on shareholder activism, think again. |
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March 5, 2007
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Hotter Seats Than They Bargained For Some hedge funds that pushed their way onto boards have activist's remorse. |
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Ceridian Clocks Out The HR outsourcer sells out to head off an activist hedge fund. |
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April 10, 2006
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Corporate Cash: Use It Or Lose It Chronic hoarders might soon be targets of shareholder activists who want the money used to boost stock prices. Tech outfits lead the list. |
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November 12, 2010
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Welcome to Proxy Fight Club Despite their downsides, proxy wars represent an important part of shareholder rights. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 19, 2011
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Activist Board Members Increase Firm's Market Value Public company shareholders have long complained that corporate boards don't always act in the best interest of their investors. But does the addition of a shareholder-sponsored board member increase the market value of the firm? |
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Board Shakeups Made Easier New law gives shareholders more power. Delaware entities will have to put shareholder nominees on the proxy and reimburse successful campaigns. The SEC and the Senate have new regs in store, too. |
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People Power in Corporate America Don't underestimate the power of individual investors. Just look at all the strides toward better corporate governance that investors have made this year. |
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Stock Picking Is Alive and Kicking Many winning hedge funds turn to mortgages and commodities, but one famous winner still picks stocks. |
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December 11, 2011
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Bill Ackman Is High on Lowe's Need a great place to find stock ideas? Look no further than the quarterly 13F filings put out by the super investors. Today, Pershing Square activist Bill Ackman. |
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Fortune Brands Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Is this meaningful? Or just another movement? |
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Read Those Proxy Statements in 2006 Shareholder resolutions are an increasingly important vehicle for shareholder activism of all sorts. |
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Who's Pushing Stock Prices Higher? If hedge funds are driving this market higher, the gains could well be fickle. |
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January 15, 2007
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This Proxy Season, Expect A Brawl Add up shareholder anger over the backdating scandal, a slate of new rules on executive pay disclosure, increasing pressure from activist hedge funds, and more companies requiring directors to be elected by a majority shareholder vote, and a tempestuous proxy period lies ahead. |
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Feeding Frenzy Roving schools of activist shareholders are looking for slow-moving small fry to sink their teeth into. By the time the prey at community banks knows what's happening, it could be too late. |
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May 9, 2011
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Lollapalooza for Value Investors: Day 1 The Value Investing Congress draws the current generation of value investing superstars to a sun-bathed, idyllic stretch of Los Angeles exurbia. We present two particularly salient nuggets from Day 1, and a stock idea that made me tick. |
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Railroad Stocks: Bill Ackman Thinks They're Undervalued Hedge fund guru Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management has a history of buying up companies he deems undervalued to turn them around. So investors are paying close attention to his newest target: Canadian Pacific Railway. |
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Buyer Beware on Borders As your mom used to say: If Bill Ackman jumped off a bridge, would you? |
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Rash of Activism at Staples This year's proxy statement from office supply giant Staples contains four separate shareholder proposals, the first time any shareholder proposals have been made in the last ten years. |
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Your Stocks' Secrets Investors, knowledge is power, so don't ignore a freely available source of the best-kept corporate secrets -- the proxy statement. Proxy season is upon us -- don't forget to do your homework. |
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Who's in Charge Here? Listening to shareholders is easy. Making sense of their concerns is not. |
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A Shift Toward Shareholder Rights Shareholder-friendly policies may become an increasing priority in corporate America. |
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A Shadowy Risk for Shareholders Activist investors could push corporations to disclose political campaign donations. |
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Making Corporate Housecleaning Easier in 2012 Proxy access resolutions pile up; could some corporate boards get cleaned up next year? |
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Are Special Interests Taking Over Your Companies? Shareholder democracy isn't the problem; passive investing is. I ran a search on Proxy Monitor's site for socially based shareholder resolutions filed at public companies by "special interest" activists from 2008 until the present. |
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A Bigger Voice For Small Investors With corporations under mounting pressure to acknowledge shareholder rights, ordinary mutual fund managers are increasingly asserting themselves on behalf of smaller investors. |
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Who's Targeting Your Stock? The Manhattan Institute's Proxy Monitor database is a tool that lets shareholder proposals point you toward real investment risks. |
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Live From Bio: Activist Investors Activist investors throw a fit and try to get management changes when they're not happy, like Carl Icahn has done with ImClone Systems and tried to do with Biogen Idec. As they become more common, how are companies dealing with them? |
