activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor
description: individual or group buying shares to influence company management
153 results
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 words
’s efforts to hire employees of color were insufficient, given the scale and type of changes they saw as necessary. Calling themselves Campaign GM, these “activist shareholders” (before the term was coined) were organized by a group of young lawyers affiliated with Ralph Nader. Nader, whose 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed
Value of Everything: An Antidote to Chaos The
by Mariana Mazzucato · 25 Apr 2018 · 457pp · 125,329 words
buy-back programmes. In 2012, for example, Apple announced a share buy-back programme of up to a staggering $100 billion, partly to ward off ‘activist' shareholders demanding that the company return cash to them to ‘unlock shareholder value'.7 Rather than reinvest in the business, Apple preferred to transfer cash to
How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World
by Dambisa Moyo · 3 May 2021 · 272pp · 76,154 words
a global corporation for $100 billion, the largest global mergers and acquisitions transaction in 2016; enormous regulatory fines stemming from a crackdown on corporate behavior; activist shareholders seeking to disrupt the company strategy; the unique challenges of having an insider—a large, dominant, usually family member—shareholder on the board; expropriation of
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members, and whether or not the roles of the board chairman and CEO should be merged. Board rules must also dictate whether, how, and when activist investors, company founders, or employee representatives should have a seat on the board. Even as these arguments rage on, there are certain rules and guidelines in
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position in the company. Strategic investors, generally, are focused on the long term, while activist investors can be in it for short-term stock appreciation. Many observers assume that strategic shareholders are always a constructive, positive influence, while activist shareholders are invariably negative and disruptive. However, the reality is far more nuanced. Left unchecked
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into management’s time—and that, in many cases, run counter to the long-term interests of the company. For example, Procter & Gamble and the activist investor Nelson Peltz spent $100 million each advocating for their separate interests during a proxy battle in 2017. The board likely spent a significant proportion of
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to avoid being the target of an activist; virtually every industry has seen activists gain board seats. Some well-known corporations that have engaged with activist investors include food producer Nestlé, with Third Point; confectionary maker Mondelēz, with Trian; and retailer JCPenney, with the hedge fund Pershing Square. I directly experienced the
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2016, while I was serving on the board of the Silicon Valley technology company Seagate, the board opted to willingly invite in ValueAct Capital, an activist investor. The two entities worked productively together, demonstrating that the relationship between the company board and the activist can be collaborative and constructive. This kind of
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involves job losses or restructuring that involves the sale of a business unit. Even so, the hard-nosed, purely numerical approach that tends to guide activist investors often neglects the broader societal considerations that boards need to bear in mind. A similar conundrum of divided loyalties is presented by the question of
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be dealt with by transforming the business landscape. When it comes to investments, boards must reckon with more vocal institutional investors, the risk of outside activists, investors excluding their companies from key funds, the rise of machines, the effects of algorithmic trading, and capital drying up for public companies. More and more
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vocal investors, including those that dominate the share registers and therefore pose a threat to the status quo. Of these, passive funds, active funds, and activist investors are emerging as the most prominent figures wielding influence over boards and management. Passive funds tend to track a stock market index such as the
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board. In part, these institutional investors are responding to pressure from their employees, society, and their clients—such as public-sector and corporate pension funds. Activist shareholders bring a more radical approach to how they engage with a board and a corporation. They will often quietly build an equity stake in a
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on their investments in a short period—their average time between entering and exiting an investment is twenty-eight months—and boards anticipate that an activist investor will be motivated accordingly. Effective activists run campaigns to win over a target company’s largest shareholders to build support for their plans for change
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to break up a company, which can lead to conflict with the board. In July 2018, food group Nestlé was called to task by an activist investor, Third Point Management’s Dan Loeb, who accused the company of being “insular, complacent, and overly bureaucratic” and of “missing too many trends.” He proposed
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, 2014. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pfizer-astrazeneca-cameron/cameron-tells-pfizer-wants-more-commitments-for-astrazeneca-deal-idUKKBN0DN0S120140507. Jessop, Simon, and Sinead Cruise. “Activist Investor Bramson May Get Bloody Nose at Barclays AGM.” Reuters, April 26, 2019. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-barclays-agm-activist
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/activist-investor-bramson-may-get-bloody-nose-at-barclays-agm-idUKKCN1S21BZ. Jiang, Bin, and Tim Koller. “Paying Back Your Shareholders.” McKinsey & Company, May 1, 2011. www.mckinsey.
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
by William D. Cohan · 25 Dec 2015 · 1,009pp · 329,520 words
designed to simplify Lazard's byzantine ownership structure and came about chiefly as a result of the ongoing efforts of Jon Wood at UBS, the activist shareholder. After the merger with Rue Imperiale, Eurazeo would become, essentially, a large publicly traded private-equity fund. Together, Michel and the onetime Lazard suitor Credit
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genome. "For reasons that remain inexplicable," Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote in the Times after the compromise had been reached, "Mr. Wasserstein assumed the role of activist investor himself." Sorkin then canvassed Wall Street opinion to see how much reputational damage Bruce and Lazard had suffered, especially since only a month before Bruce
The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer
by Nicholas Shaxson · 10 Oct 2018 · 482pp · 149,351 words
, particularly the outsourcing of labour-intensive production facilities to cheap-labour countries like China or Bangladesh. This was driven especially hard by financial players and activist shareholders. And at the same time, also driven by financial players, bigger firms were aggressively expanding their use of tax havens to cut tax bills. These
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so bad that it was ‘like a prison’.28 These changes in the landscape of economic power have most often been driven by investment funds, activist shareholders and other financial interests, which have forced firms to channel their growing profits not into research and development but into paying bumper dividends. ‘The pressure
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Mar 2016 · 366pp · 94,209 words
lives. It’s easiest to see and feel that impact by investing in regional companies and projects, big or small. A large corporation’s local activist shareholders can have a disproportionately significant influence on how the company employs, sources, pollutes, and donates. Meanwhile, as distributed technologies allow smaller, more locally connected businesses
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
by Raghuram Rajan · 26 Feb 2019 · 596pp · 163,682 words
top management went up by only $3.25.41 The authors suggested it should be much more. Corporate chieftains obviously loved this message. Second, large activist shareholders ought to monitor firm management and push it to do the right thing for shareholders—a recent example was when the influential shareholders of the
Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference
by Alice Ross · 19 Nov 2020 · 197pp · 53,831 words
from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader. AB InBev 176 active funds 30, 31, 41, 83, 96, 97, 98, 125 activist investors 69–77, 84–90, 100–101 advertising 77, 79, 80, 151, 202 AGMs (Annual General Meetings) 70–73, 84, 87, 104 agriculture 85, 120, 145
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investors 170–71; semiconductor companies 143, 166–7, 178; weight reduction, investing in 167–8; zero emission pledges 176–8 engagement/effecting change 69–106; activist shareholders 69–74, 84–90; disclosure, improving 80–84; fund managers 73–4, 77–80; green bonds 93–6; greenwashing 77–80; passive investing 96–104
Ethics in Investment Banking
by John N. Reynolds and Edmund Newell · 8 Nov 2011 · 193pp · 11,060 words
investment banks, but such pressure is not always farsighted. In 2007, there was extensive external pressure on HSBC to reform its activities, including pressure from activist shareholders. It became clear from late 2007 onwards, as the financial crisis developed, that while HSBC had eschewed some short-term opportunities for profits, despite highprofile
Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It
by Steven Brill · 28 May 2018 · 519pp · 155,332 words
and that borrows the rhetoric of other democracy movements. Armed with cash from huge hedge funds that they control, the raiders now style themselves as “activist shareholders” engaged in campaigns to get even some of the largest and most successful companies to do better for their shareholders by “unlocking” the value they
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