Entries tagged "activist shareholder"
The emergence of activist hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners as a stakeholder in Cablevision Systems Corp. may have been the motivating factor behind the company's recent listening tour with investors. Cablevision's controlling family, famous for its own feuding among each other and sticking by the Knicks' Isaiah Thomas, has consistently put off talking to major shareholders since 2005....
Now you too can become an activist shareholder, with this little instruction manual, The Icahn Report, courtesy of billionaire and activist investor Carl Icahn. ...
Former UBS president-turned-activist-investor Luqman Arnold wants to shake things up at the Swiss bank. Arnold said in a letter sent to board member Sergio Marchionne that the bank's board of directors should be nonexecutive rather than executive, and that Marchionne himself should become chairman. Arnold is also recommending separating the...
