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TheStreet: 'Extreme Value Hedging' a must read

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Published May 27, 2008 at 4:26 PM
The Deal's own Ron Orol made TheStreet.com's top 10 list of investment books to read over the Memorial Day weekend. The book entitled "Extreme Value Hedging : How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking on the World" examines activist hedge fund managers and how they are shaking up corporate boardrooms in the U.S. and many other countries including Canada, Russia, the U.K., China and Japan.

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Key activists that provided their insights include:

- Ralph Whitworth, Relational Investors
- Guy Wyser-Pratte, Wyser-Pratte Management
- Mark Schwarz, Newcastle Capital Group LLC
- Robert Chapman, Chapman Capital
- Phillip Goldstein, Bulldog Partners
- Jeffrey Ubben, ValueAct Capital
- Jim Mitarotonda, Barington Capital
- Jeffrey M. Solomon, Ramius Capital Group LLC
- Michael Van Biema, Van Biema Value Partners
- Eric Rosenfeld, Crescendo Partners
- Lars Förberg, Cevian Capital
- Emanuel Pearlman, Liberation Investment Group

- The editors

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From: Eric,

Are activist investors a force for good in Corporate America? It is not so clear to me. I agree that there are many managements that should be sacked but it seems that the goal of most activist investors is to get the price of the stock up in the short term but what they advocate may not be the best thing in the long term for the company.

Posted on: May 28, 2008 10:00 AM


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