On becoming an activist board!

Confessions, and advice, from a director who was once an activist.Nelson Peltz. Third Point. Cevian Capital.If you haven’t heard of any of these, it may mean that you do not own shares of Proctor & Gamble, Nestle or Ericsson, respectively. Because those three names — a billionaire and two hedge funds — took on those corporations in the demolition derby that is modern shareholder activism.

One major trend in the corporate world is rolling back progress in another.

Women CEOs are much more likely than their male counterparts to be targeted by activist shareholders, according to research conducted by a team that included two University of Alabama business professors.

Power Corp of Canada should offload a number of non-core assets that could fetch about $10 billion, a shareholder told Reuters late on Monday, in a move he said would unlock shareholder value at the diversified holding company.

Japan has traditionally followed a structure that favors employees over economic growth and shareholder expenses. This system ensures the protection of managers from external factors such as company cross-holdings. The country’s court system too has shown bias against investment funds throughout its history. Shareholder activism could be the key to addressing this side of the…

As real estate goes green, that can be an opportunity for investors.

In Part 6 of our Board Evaluations Blog Series, we discuss the most important—and often-overlooked—step of the assessment process: taking action on results.

Activism may make headlines, but Korn Ferry’s Jane Stevenson sees other issues during this week’s key directors gathering in DC.

Much has changed in shareholder activism over the past several years: from noisy public fights to quiet engagements; from knee-jerk opposition to shareholder engagement to a deliberate professional approach to shareholder outreach by issuers; and the growing willingness of institutiona

In this episode, Schneider discusses the impact that e-proxies have had on retail shareholder voting and how today’s boards can ensure good voter turnout.

Martin Sorrell, the chairman of WPP, the world's biggest ad agency, complained this week that activists' short-term focus restraining targets' ad spending. TheStreet asked Bill Ackman what he thought about CEOs attacking activist investors....WPPGY

Japanese Corporate Governance is heading in the right direction but companies still have a lot of work to do before the regio

Please see below a fact-sheet containing statistics on activist investments from October 2017.

The proportion of U.S. companies relative to activism globally, and the most popular sectors for activists in several key markets.

A swiss hedge fund is set to launch a campaign urging the mega bank to split itself up into three divisions, including one that would restore its old First Boston brand....CS

This AGM season several large companies will have to face increasingly awkward questions from investors looking well beyond the numbers.

By Alessio M. Paces - Professor of Law and Finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam       Activist hedge funds are the big thing in

See how the biggest U.S. companies stack up in terms of board pay, independence and women directors. The Wall Street Journal has analyzed the boards of directors at S&P 500 companies.

Australia’s boardrooms face one of world’s highest threats of shareholder activism according to FTI Consulting's 2017 Global Shareholder Activism Research.