- The new activist investors -
[Posted on November 19, 2009 at 4:49 PM]
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A potential battle is brewing between bookseller Barnes & Noble and Yucaipa founder Ron Burkle.
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[Posted on November 17, 2009 at 7:38 AM]
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The firm says Sprint Nextel's $24 per share offer is too low. Try $34 to $47 per share.
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[Posted on November 13, 2009 at 3:31 PM]
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Three years after hedge fund 'clones' hit the market, they are starting to gain clout. A new study shows that their performance is neck-and-neck with hedge fund indexes.
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[Posted on November 12, 2009 at 5:36 PM]
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Hedge fund manager John Paulson increases his stake in Cadbury for the second time this week. If Kraft ups its bid and woos the British confectioner successfully, Paulson stands to
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[Posted on November 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM]
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Paulson doubled his stake in Cadbury to 2.1% on Monday, scooping up an additional 14.8 million shares. Does this mean he thinks Kraft will eventually ante up?
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[Posted on November 10, 2009 at 3:49 PM]
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It's that time again. Yes folks, back for a second installation are some of the best-performing hedge funds of 2009.
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[Posted on November 9, 2009 at 3:18 PM]
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Ongoing reports of scandal in the hedge fund industry are giving investors 'general fatigue,' says senior analyst Denise Valentine of Aite Group.
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[Posted on November 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM]
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A look at the news moving deal-related stocks including Citigroup, Bank of America, American International Group and AT&T.
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[Posted on November 6, 2009 at 3:39 PM]
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Citigroup is reportedly mulling a rebranding of its lackluster alternatives investment unit, Citi Alternative Investments. This would be a poor use of company resources.
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[Posted on November 5, 2009 at 11:20 AM]
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Thursday, 14 people were charged with conspiracy and fraud. It has not been confirmed that the recent sweep is related to the insider trading case involving Galleon Group.
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- The inefficiency of the IRS taking on hedgies
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- SEC, CFTC to play nice with each other
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- Just how interested is Fortress in M&A?
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- The issues underlying high frequency trading
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- Alpha, RIP, on dark pools
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- PE and VC tarnished by hedge fund brush?
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- CalPERS may up PE, VC investing
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- Target earnings preview
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- Target appeals to shareholders
- Obama, Congress and regulatory reform
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- At MBIA, it's like old times
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- Madoff refuses to name names
- Madoff to plead guilty Thursday
- Slim, Icahn and Malone lead media debt feast
- Activist CtW: Fire BofA chief Ken Lewis, or else
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- Mercer: Crisis could lower fund fees
- France to tackle hedge funds
- Madoff in court Wednesday
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- Feds could throw bones to PE, hedge funds
- The new spin on company repossessions
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- Martin Lipton serves poison pill to activists
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- The activist soap opera continues
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- Does Icahn have writer's block?
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- Hedge funds wither under $152B in withdrawals
- Soros: Economy needs more stimulus to save it from depression
- Another mini-Madoff surfaces
- Icahn's stimulus package envisions an end to exclusivity
- Three fraudsters: One arrested, one on the lam, one under the weather
- Madoff associate ignores subpoena
- SEC filing: Ramius lunges at Orthofix
- Is a plea deal in the works for Bernie Madoff?
- Blackstone's GSO Capital exits Asia
- Madoff investment comes back to haunt Banco Santander
- Madoff remains out on bail
- Bernie Madoff offers his profound apologies
- Boaz Weinstein: Out of the frying pan and into the fire?
- More Ponzi scheme headaches for the SEC
- SEC filing: Burkle has an appetite for Whole Foods
- Bloomberg: Ackman's Target investment not on target
- Madoff may force the SEC to re-evaluate enforcement unit
- Prosecutor wants Madoff's bail revoked
- Paulson & Co. loses a superstar manager
- Wall Street banks steered clear of Bernie Madoff
- Lewis and Einhorn on how to fix the financial system
- Fairfield Greenwich Group hit with lawsuit over Madoff losses
- Hedge funds getting ready for regulation in 2009
- Video: Madoff masquerading as financial guru
- Trian nabs pair of Drexel vets to grow credit business
- A bailout for Madoff's victims?
- Madoff victims tally up their losses
- Santander blocks Web site of hedge fund Madoff swindled
- Cox attempts damage control in light of Madoff scandal
- What would Galbraith have made of Madoff?
- Congress jumps all over Madoff scandal
- Madoff cheats at golf too
- Politicians get sucked into Madoff case
- Love Connection: Starring Bernie Madoff and the SEC
- Madoff leaves funds-of-funds with plenty of explaining to do
- The marketing genius of Bernie Madoff
- Deal Stocks: Madoff Ponzi scheme sends ripples through battered hedge funds
- Roll Call: Dec. 15, 2008
- Sign of the Apocalypse: Madoff on regulation, investing
- Madoff advised the SEC, while duping it
- Madoff scheme slams charities for the holidays
- Could 30% of hedge fund disappear?
- Madoff's list of victims reportedly could reach the thousands
- Where was the SEC when Madoff was scheming?
- Madoff hedge fund meltdown could be another strikeout for the NY Mets
- KB Toys files Ch. 11 as holiday shoppers stay home
- Hedge funds want to peak behind Dillard's tattered doors
- Inside The Deal: Bulldog Investors' Phillip Goldstein on activist shareholders
- Seeking safety investors drive T-bill rates to lowest level since 1929
- SEC charges Dreier upon return from Canada
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- The truth about university endowment finances
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- Investors see dead end in attempted Fortress exit
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- Retailer losses ahead of Black Friday could help activist investors
- Lehman may force collapse of hedge funds
- Fidelity, Pershing will get burned if General Growth goes up in flames
- SEC forms task forces to target short selling and derivative trading
- Eliot Spitzer's wife lands hedge fund job
- The WSJ on Morgan Stanley, CDSs and shorts
- Cox calls on peers amid crisis
- Paulson calls for regulating everyone and everything
- Citigroup shutters leveraged debt hedge fund
- For Icahn, Exelixis marks the biotech spot
- Why weren't Ackman, Goldstein on Waxman's guest list?
- Hedge funds brace for a possible tidal wave of redemptions
- Hedge fund managers trek up to Capitol Hill
- Dealmakers discuss a potential carried-interest tax hike in 2009
- Bulldog's Goldstein's harsh words for corporate boards
- Strong regulation of PE and hedge funds likely on the way
- Cox calls for change on Election Day
- Goldman hedge fund takes it on the chin
- KKR takes wait and see approach to public listing
- Carlyle gives Lehman's asset management arm a good look
- Ackman targets Target
- Is Dick Grasso an Icahn disciple?
- Harrah's a bad bet for PE?
- The Journal offers a 'what if' scenario for Kerkorian
- Where Wall Street meets Main Street and Congress
- J.P. Morgan takes N.Y. recruiter to court over poaching
- Bidders lining up for Lehman's remaining private capital assets
- The search for good and evil in the Lehman prosecution
- Is Icahn cutting back?
- Icahn lays blame on the 'clowns' and 'mad scientists'
- Hedge funds shouldn't expect to see any bailout money
- Highland Capital to shutter its flagship debt fund
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- Credit crisis fallout spills onto the Nascar's tracks
- Hedge funds counter Italian government attack
- Ford's stock free falls, CFO departs
- Ready, set, short!
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- Ackman wants to be 'heralded' for shorting
- The FT on just how unpopular shorting is
- Ready, steady, short!
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- Will a Lehman-KDB deal kill Neuberger Berman auction?
- Profitable hedge funds on a hiring spree
- Shapiro urges strategic review for Sparton
- Icahn complains (again) about how companies dis dissidents
- Pimco raising a $5B mortgage-backed debt fund
- Tennessee pension fund enters PE with $900M to allocate
- Citadel planning new $1B macro hedge fund
- Harbinger spooks Dolans as it raises stake in Cablevision
- What's the difference between a penny and a nickel?
- Loeb responds to SEC inquiry
- Will vice chair appointment re-energize Circuit City auction?
- Eustace now ordered to pay $300M
- Pitt to Alabama?
- Lichtenstein sets his sights on Point Blank, again
- Greenlight's Einhorn fights Natixis plan
- Could it be the beginning of another Richard Breeden insurgency?
- Pitt launches Web site to help short sellers
- Apollo raising $2B European distressed debt fund
- Morgan Stanley, Goldman link lending to their own creditworthiness
- How much is enough for Ackman?
- Shanghai changes tax rules for foreign PE firms
- Soros bets on Lehman
- Harbinger stake prompts Cablevision to charm investors
- Distressed debt hedge fund Turnberry Capital to liquidate
- Cleveland-Cliff's uphill battle for Alpha
- Academic: Basically, there is no stopping naked short selling
- Sidhu to the rescue of troubled Florida bank
- NY Post: Not even Icahn can beat the bears
- Ackman likely unhappy as bulls run up monolines
- Roll Call: Hedge funder flees firm, starts new one
- Report: Third Avenue plans $3B distressed PE fund
- Pershing boosts Longs stake
- No summer doldrums for Carl Icahn
- CSX still won't seat hedge funders
- Carlyle decides to get out of the hedge fund business
- Hedge fund and PE slowdown expected to hit AIG's earnings
- Sail Advisors hires Duhamel as CEO
- Patricof's open letter to Icahn, and activists at large
- Fortress, PE write-downs drive Nomura to surprise first-quarter loss
- Crawford picks up from where Icahn left off
- Einhorn gives ratings agencies junk rating
- Rumors and shorting, con't: And now the fun begins
- Harbinger digs in for Cleveland-Cliffs fight
- The Journal does yoga: A trend in search of a crisis
- Cox and why naked shorting is sorta bad, but not really
- PAI Partners, Philippe Guez to start European hedge fund
- John Paulson to invest in financials hit by mortgage write-downs
- Shamrock wants changes at Panera
- Triple-A monolines: A dying breed
- A short disquisition on the joys of naked shorting
- AFSCME demands Citi to spin off Smith Barney
- Callan bolts Lehman for Credit Suisse hedge fund
- Bear Stearns trader starts billion-dollar hedge fund
- SEC rumored to be taking on rumors
- London-based firms poaching from bigger banks
- Long shots have paid off for Steeler's suitor Druckenmiller
- Druckenmiller running a hurry-up offense to buy Steelers
- Questioning The Children's Investment Fund's philanthropy
- Dealmakers tackle sports teams
- Rumors, subpoenas and the pursuit of truth on Wall Street
- Steel Partners leans on Sapporo
- InBev behaving like an activist investor
- Banker leaves 'Goldmine' for hedge fund
- Activision suit: 'Game over'
- Circuit City is down, but is it out?
- Schwarz refuses to accept no from Specialty Underwriters
- Newcastle sues Royal Philips
- Lehman, Aladin Capital raising billions for emerging hedge fund managers
- What did Jeffrey Epstein have to do with Bear Stearns?
- Hedge funds shop for change at Syms
- Deal jobs update: Who is hiring?
- Icahn blogs again, sort of
- CSX proxy fight still rolls despite vote
- House approves carried interest tax
- Activist seeks new Select Comfort chief
- Roll Call: Bear Stearns' criminal collectables on eBay
- If at Citi you can't succeed, try, try a hedge
- Short sellers target U.K. banks
- TCI: Winning the battle but losing the war?
- Moody's downgrades MBIA, Ambac, but is Ackman satisfied?
- Amida v. Cerberus, a commentary
- Biogen shareholders snub Icahn
- The Icahn Report offers tips to nascent activists
- Jana retreats from Cnet campaign
- Two Bear Stearns hedge fund executives arrested
- Schumer may propose bill concerning CSX ruling
- Taking bankruptcy on the lam gains momentum
- Dealmakers' purchase of the Celtics finally pays off
- Congress revisiting carried interest tax hike
- Report: Harbinger to spread its branches, while peers are pruned
- Chanos on why rumors are ugly
- Ramius pushes Agilysis to sell
- Hedge fund calls out Icahn over XO
- Goldman Sach's William Anderson on shareholder activism
- Yahoo, shmahoo... Icahn's got other fish to fry
- Court hands hedge fund TCI a loss
- Tips on dealing with Carl Icahn
- When Icahn speaks everyone listens, and few are safe
- Hedge funds dodge Democratic tax increase
- Bankruptcy Update: Goody's, Pacific Lumber, Wild West and more
- CFIUS to take on British activist hedge fund?
- Icahn blasts Yahoo! chairman
- Meet the father of activist investors: Richard Breeden
- Icahn fires new shot at Biogen Idec
- Dealwatch: Activist investors' retail campaigns
- CtW wins some, loses some, but wants more from WaMu
- Is Peltz digging for diamonds at Tiffany's?
- ISS says yes to Discovery's 'vote no' campaign at SBS
- Bear Stearns loses Ch. 15 appeal
- Blackstone digs deeper into hedge funds
- Wall Street prefers Democrats?
- TheStreet: 'Extreme Value Hedging' a must read
- Hedge fund takes bigger bite out of Domino's
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- Activist campaigns, proxy fights hit all time high
- Icahn blasts Obama at investor conference
- Ackman could book some bucks on Borders sale to Barnes & Noble
- Obrem loses campaign against Micrel
- Will the Icahn blog read like his letters?
- Jana's Cnet win the latest in a series of hedge fund campaigns
- Atkins departure from SEC mixed blessing for hedge funds
- Adult hedge fund gets over $7.9B in commitments
- Previewing The Deal: Week of May 12, 2008
- Shell game
- A Charming deal for activists
- Clinton turns up the anti-Wall Street rhetoric
- Sun setting on Furniture Brands' independence
- Carl Icahn to finally join blogosphere
- As activists seek change, Charming Shoppes looks to sell assets
- Harbinger wins seats on Media General's board
- SEC settles with trader who manipulated Alliance Data trades
- Wattles pushes Blockbuster-Circuit City deal, but arbs call it garbage
- Hedge funds bring in only $16.5B in first quarter
- Templeton Asset Management goes into Iraq
- ISS supports Sun Capital's Furniture Brands proxy
- Hedge funds top $2.6T under management
- Activist hedge fund SRM boosts Countrywide stake
- Forget oil. In Taiwan, Yankees pitcher Wang rules the economy
- Biogen Idec slate snubs Icahn's nominees
- Costa Brava loses case against Telos
- Is Sequoia Capital expanding into hedge funds?
- CtW declares WaMu victory, turns up the heat
- ISS backs Harbinger in Media General battle
- Goldman Sachs dumps LBO debt at deep discount
- Steel Partners II LP seems to be on a tear lately
- Meet the world's only female activist hedge fund manager
- Hedge funder Hendry on why we'll be down for 25 years
- Icahn gets back to Biogen Idec
- Rowan receives strong interest in LeTourneau
- Circuit City's stock jumps on fourth-quarter profit as sale possibility looms
- News of WaMu's pending TPG recapitalization fuels CtW's fire
- Borders renegotiates backstop deal with Pershing
- Circuit City inches toward a sale
- Hedge funds pressure banks on Clear Channel deal
- The Deal: Week of April 7, 2008
- Soros: Credit default swaps are the next Damocles sword
- Activist investor Wattles calls for Circuit City sale
- Spanish Broadcasting finds itself the target of hedge fund Discovery
- Activist investor Mitarotonda takes Dillard's olive branch
- Jana's white paper: 38 pages of Cnet's troubles and how to fix them
- Lehman and KKR financial plan stock offerings
- Did blogger Jackson help Icahn?
- Icahn's patience paid off with Motorola
- Glass Lewis supports Morgan Stanley's Mack
- Are investors preparing for a thaw in debt markets?
- Lehman vet to start $1B mortgage bond hedge fund
- Barington nominates four to Dillard's board
- Activists launch board fight at Office Depot
- What now for Bear Stearns' PE, VC affiliates?
- Harbinger wins seats on New York Times' board
- Carlyle Capital winds down
- Soapbox: Putting hedge funds on notice
- Did the Fed help trip up Carlyle Capital?
- Bond markets wreak havoc on hedge funds
- Lawndale wins another Sparton battle
- Al Gore's Generation Investment fund capped at $5B
- Sun-Times is the latest media outlet targeted by activist fund
- Rocket maker GenCorp settles with insurgents
- Icahn ups Motorola stake to 6.3%
- Barington seeks list of Dillard's shareholders
- Pequot Capital plans to spin out its VC unit
- Harbinger eyes Spectrum for possible buy
- Deal Digest: March 4, 2008
- Third Point retreating from Cypress Semi fight?
- Proxy Governance recommends Biglari's Steak n Shake nominees
- Harbinger takes the next step against NYT Co.
- Does Wattles' Circuit City stake presage a bankruptcy?
- Shamrock keeps the heat on Reddy Ice
- MBIA to split businesses, eliminates dividend
- Denham, Buffett and the Times: A little context
- Harbinger, Firebrand boost Gray Lady stake
- In the boardroom: The New York Times shakes up its slate
- Hedge fund disclosures not enough to prevent risks
- Share lending's impact on proxy contests
- Times tells shareholders to rebuff hedge funds
- Ackman says split up, MBIA says no, then MBIA says split up
- Pershing's Ackman: Short-seller with charitable intentions?
- Concord Camera may face an uphill battle with Everest
- Clinton puts Wall Street, daughter on notice
- Selloff of once restricted stocks take a beating
- Steven Madden walks away from auction plans
- Activist ups stake in NY Times Co.
- Syms encounters the wrath of Kahn
- R2 vs. Icahn
- Syms gives in to activist campaign
- CtW challenges BofA, WaMu directors
- Relational's Whitworth named to Sprint board
- Activist may elect directors to Presidential Realty
- Hedges up NY Times stake, nominate slate
- Oliver Press still pushes for change at Phoenix Cos.
- Grassley calls a truce in tax war with PE, hedges
- Bankrupt hedge fund Ritchie settles
- CNET, like Yahoo! and IAC, may find itself a target
- Rocket maker GenCorp takes fire from activists
- Emancipation to unleash Captaris' value
- Hedge fund opposes Countrywide sale
- Hedge funds seek to block Syms deregistration
- Activist wants to do coffee with Massbank CEO
- Harbinger's other media campaign
- The games hedge fund managers play
- Mitarotonda takes on Dillard's
- Harbinger, Firebrand take aim at New York Times board
- Icahn brewing a new proxy at Biogen Idec
- Steak n Shake stock climbs as activist unveils board shake up plans
- Monarch calls for sale of Radyne
- Activist seeks a cure for Enzon Pharmaceutical
- Syms: An educated financier is not our best investor
- Dems have PE ties too
- Sorkin on CNET: Surprise at face value
- Pershing Square wins Border's board seat
- Luby's sends Ramius home
- CNet case shows activist managers need to mind their Ds and Gs
- Resurgence leans on SunLink Health
- Baytree seeks to turn off Broadcaster.com
- Media Maneuvers: Da dum
- Deal digest: Jan. 10, 2008
- Jana Partners ups CNet attack
- Steel Partners, MMI team to unlock Brink's
- Steel Partners drills for change at Rowan
- Ackman continues to circle Borders
- More activists were circling prey in 2007
- Hedge fund leans on Unisys to break up
- Zale could be open to a new Signet offer
- Costa Brava seeks answers from MedQuist
- Ackman aims for asset sales at Target
- Doucet continues Global Aircraft Solutions campaign
- Briggs receives support in Cnet challenge
- An activist sees fertile ground at 1-800-Flowers
- Activists ask Syms to closet delisting plan
- Advisory firm supports Ramius' Luby campaign
- Hedge Connection looks to set up investors with fund managers
- Strategic Turnaround Equity pushes for change at Comforce
- PDL drug deal may alleviate activist
- Ramius battles with Federal Signal
- Atlas Mining to explore activist's suggestions
- PDL attracts another activist
- Blogger wages shareholder activist campaign
- Activist offers to work with Brink's
- Orchid farmer serious about Trans World offer
- Costa Brava wins Telos case
- Farallon may oppose Linktone stake sale
- Group opposes Amaranth prosecution
- Warburg Pincus' MBIA bet may counter Ackman's
- Activist sets sites on Emageon
- Pandit likely to take Citi's vacant corner office
- Luby's, Ramius continue to spar
- Activist investor Ramius hounds A. Schulman
- Genzyme to resist Icahn
- SuttonBrook takes an interest in United Rentals
- Costa Brava's revenge against Telos
- Is Zander's Moto departure Icahn's revenge?
- Hollywood: Next project for Middle Eastern investors?
- Hedge fund dumps AMR shares
- Activist to unlock value at Brinks
- Dolphin bets on change at Multimedia Games
- Activist seeks breakup of Marsh & McLennan
- Activist investor targets J.P. Morgan, Bear Stearns over subprime
- Activists fail to put pep back in to Pep Boys
- ValueAct cultures a larger stake in MDS
- Lion Fund chews on Steak n Shake
- Shapiro winning Sparton battle
- Ackman cashing in on toy fears with Borders shares?
- Delta pilots union to oppose deal
- Breeden takes over at H&R Block
- Crescendo could make noise at O'Charley's
- Pardus takes Delta campaign on the road
- A peek inside Icahn's portfolio
- Delta, UAL in talks
- JMB Capital wants Maguire to clean house
- Peltz heats up Wendy's sale
- Icahn's funds post first loss
- Lampert's investments drive up losses
- Lawndale watches Mace efforts bloom
- Costa Brava targets MedQuist
- Ramius steps up Luby's battle
- Investor may put Steven Madden in the sales bin
- S.A.C. may seek another bidder for EDO
- Luby's looks to institutional investors to stop Ramius
- Mitarotonda targets paintmaker A. Schulman
- Union challenges Countrywide's Mozilo
- Rangel proposes big tax hike on carried interest
- Prentice to Ascendia: Doll up those shares
- Doucet escalates efforts at Global Aircraft
- Steven Madden listens to activist holders?
- Cablevision deal may hit the skids
- Ramius Capital continues Luby's challenge
- Mace makes concessions avoiding Lawndale challenge
- Activist wins round 1 at Atari
- Icahn wins with BEA deal
- Gabelli owns more of Topps
- Xmark targets Genaera
- Shapiro escalates battle with Sparton
- Burkle targets Xinhua Finance
- GeoEye's stock soars, Harbinger cuts stake
- Mergers & Acquisitions Institute: Activists serve a purpose?
- Ackman vs Lampert, round 2?
- Whitworth campaigning for Sprint Nextel CEO ouster
- Steel Partners continues to cash out of EnPro
- Bioenvision holder stands firm
- Samson wrestles with Furniture Brands
- Activist Lawndale clobbers Mace Security
- Breeden sees results from Zale
- Activist challenges Brooks Automation
- Citadel rides Breeden's coattails
- Glass Lewis receives buyout interest
- Sparks fly over private equity taxation
- PE overly politicizing tax issue?
- Rep. Frank to hold hearings on mortgage mess
- Subprime lender Accredited Home near bankruptcy
- Clinton jumps on PE tax wagon
- Activist Ackman takes aim at Target
- Rowan feeling the heat?
- Reading the McClatchy tea leaves
- Shareholder activism, hostile takeovers on the rise
- Beltway Blackstone backlash begins
- Board room change is not always good
- ACG InterGrowth Conference: Where hedge funds and PE converge
- Take Two's board may get jacked
- Just in: PE firms may put Friendly on their menus
- Good news, students are narcissists
- Relational ousts another CEO
- Is Home Depot's Nardelli in the hot seat?
- Unsolicited interest prompts Salton response
- High profile directors
- CalPERS adds more activists
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