Shareholder Activism

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• Are You Risking Your Career or Your Business?

  
  The Corner Office — Authority: 525
  If your career or business is untouched by significant legal matters, then you probably dont have much of a career or business. We are a nation of laws, and any senior executive or business leader whos been around will tell you: turn a blind eye to the legal system and you risk everything.
  5 days ago

• Keep this in mind if youre a Goldman shareholder

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Investing , Goldman Sachs Nowhere are the rights of shareholders more disrespected than at publicly traded investment banks. Wall Street amply demonstrates that the interests of mutual funds and other institutional investors are hardly at the top of their list of concerns. These banks still think of ...
  1 week ago

• Harbinger Sells Off More Times Shares

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 595
  Activist hedge fund manager Harbinger Capital Partners has continued to reduce its stake in The New York Times Co., more than a year-and-a-half after winning a pair of board seats. read more
  1 week ago

• Shareholder E-communication is like global warming

  
  derek abdinor — Authority: 100
  Electronic communication to shareholders is a philosophy as much as a practice – where possible collect email and mobile addresses of your shareholders to communicate directly, and cut down the costs associated with being a listed company, eg on the JSE . Polar Bear Because there is an argument for and ...
  1 week ago

• Peltz Doesn’t Want To Split Up Legg Mason

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 595
  Activist hedge fund manager Nelson Peltz does not want to dismember Legg Mason, its CEO said. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Six Flags Flies White Flag In Face Of Avenue Attack

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 595
  When Avenue Capital Management saw the proposed terms of theme park operator Six Flags Inc.’s reorganization, it was not happy. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Matt Miller on Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp (FMMH)

  
  Street Capitalist: Event Driven Value Investments — Authority: 481
  Matt Miller of Chanticleer Advisors has a nice write up on Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp (OTC: FMMH ) Give it a read: A Find in Freemont (PDF) I’m going to start reading Fremont’s filings so I can get a better picture of the situation and make my own judgement.
  4 weeks ago

• Getting Corporations to Do the Right Thing

  
  Dirt Diggers Digest — Authority: 104
  I admit it—the Dirt Diggers Digest is guilty of focusing on the bad news about corporate misdeeds. So in this post I will write about something positive: activist groups that are succeeding in changing corporate behavior for the better. The occasion for this shift in emphasis is the recent announcement of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Schedule 23 – the book(e) make up tons

  
  derek abdinor — Authority: 100
  In discussion the other day we were puzzled as to why the majority of companies on the JSE do not take advantage of Schedule 23 for their regulatory communications to the market and shareholders. For issuing companies to embark on an electronic consent program, the following benefits accrue to company and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Peltz Strikes A Deal With Legg Mason, Joins Firm’s Board

  
  FINalternatives — Authority: 595
  Activist hedge fund manager Nelson Peltz has joined the board of directors of Legg Mason after his Trian Fund Management built up a 4.3% stake in the asset management firm. read more
  4 weeks ago

• Sardar Biglari buys 9.9% of Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp (FMMH)

  
  Street Capitalist: Event Driven Value Investments — Authority: 481
  After Steak N Shake (NYSE: SNS ) reorganized as a holding company I knew that it was only a matter of time before he started to use the company’s free cash flow to target investments outside of restaurant operations. This is precisely what he did with Western Sizzlin. Today, we found out what he was up to– Steak ...
  4 weeks ago

• Industrial Activism Obama style

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 131
  Obama engaged in responsible Industrial activism towards the bank-wank establishment… Finally an adult behaviour lesson in Leadership, targeted for Finance’s unruly schoolchildren. The TARP banks, insurance and corporate revived turtles are now under clear orders to limit their indulgences. They will listen to ...
  5 weeks ago

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