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Shareholder activism: Not just a quick buck
<p>Activist investors are a plus for firms they target – not just for days but for years, new research finds</p>
Are activist investors mainly out to make a fast buck or are they a long-term plus for the companies they target? A paper that can lay claim to being the largest and broadest investigation of this hotly debated issue finds the latter to be generally the case.
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More than 900 companies were targeted with activist campaigns last year and 417 of those were outside the US, according to a new report. The Activist...Read more
UK shareholder activism saw a sharp increase last year as investors launched campaigns at 25 companies, spending $7.35 bn on stocks, according to...Read more
When stocks take the kind of nosedive they did in December 2018, market prognosticators tend to pronounce slowdowns in all types of activity from M...Read more
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