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October 7, 2015 9:28 AM
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Facing renewed activist pressure after winning proxy fight, DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman abruptly retires
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October 7, 2015 9:28 AM
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More than 20 percent of corporate board directors said their boards have been approached by activist investors during the past year, according to a new survey, but 46 percent of those polled have no plan in place for responding to activist investor challenges.
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October 7, 2015 9:28 AM
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Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) October 06, 2015 -- Version 2.5 makes it even easier to create tailored dashboard, reporting and analytics experiences
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October 7, 2015 7:52 AM
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A US hedge fund is ratcheting up its campaign to convince Peru to repay $5bn of long-defaulted 40-year-old bonds by threatening to sue the country under a free-trade agreement with the US. Gramercy, an emerging markets-focused hedge fund, has
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October 7, 2015 7:50 AM
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William Ackman, head of hedge fund firm Pershing Square Capital Management, said on Tuesday that financial market volatility was being driven by short-term money without regard to long-term economic fundamentals and that Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc was the most undervalued stock among his top holdings.
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October 7, 2015 7:50 AM
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Also seating charts, Lehman Brothers, Twitter, IEX, etc. And stay off drugs, kids.
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October 7, 2015 7:49 AM
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It might be all about winning but victory is just the start of the process, says Stephen Griggs, chief executive of Smoothwater Capital, an activist investor with two scalps under its belt, on life as...
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October 7, 2015 7:47 AM
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By: Martin Lipton, Founding Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz..
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October 7, 2015 7:46 AM
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In an opinion last week [September 17, 2015], the Delaware Court of Chancery, following other recent decisions from that Court, strongly signaled that stockholder lawsuits in Delaware attacking mergers may no longer be resolved by a corporate defendant providing additional disclosures to stockholders in exchange for a broad release of claims against all defendants.
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October 7, 2015 7:45 AM
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In an important ruling last week, the Delaware Supreme Court reaffirmed that control of Delaware companies lies in the boardroom and held that the deferential business judgment rule is the “appropr...
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October 7, 2015 7:44 AM
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Procter & Gamble, proxy access, CEO pay, compensation, ProxyDemocracy.org, ISS, SharkRepellent.net, GMIAnalyst, Calvert, CBIS, Trillium, Domini, PG, $PG
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October 6, 2015 9:40 AM
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There is no question that shareholder activism has steadily grown over the past decade and is now widely seen as the “new normal.” Hedge funds that focus on shareholder activism seem to be emerging all the time, and hedge funds that have been around for many years are now more than ever willing to engage in shareholder activism.
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October 6, 2015 9:39 AM
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The Wall Street Journal has analyzed the performance of large U.S. companies targeted by an activist investor.
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October 7, 2015 9:28 AM
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ValueAct on Tuesday hinted at its intentions for Baker Hughes, which is awaiting regulatory approval for a tie-up with Halliburton, after the activist investor took a roughly 5% stake in the oil-field servicer earlier this year.
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October 7, 2015 9:28 AM
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Dual-class shares plan pulled - The Standard
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October 7, 2015 9:27 AM
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What’s on the mind of one of the world’s best-known activist investors? Bloomberg’s Stephanie Ruhle speaks with William Ackman, CEO and Portfolio Manager, Pershing Square Capital Management. They speak at the Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit in New York. (Source: Bloomberg)
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October 7, 2015 7:52 AM
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Discussions involved Bombardier’s pitch to sell majority C Series stake to Airbus
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October 7, 2015 7:50 AM
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Volkswagen's supervisory board was holding crisis talks on Wednesday, facing deadlines from German regulators and U.S lawmakers to explain its rigging of diesel emissions tests and what it is doing to tackle the scandal.
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October 7, 2015 7:49 AM
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"We believe the stock is unlikely to trade materially higher in the absence of a take private transaction."
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October 7, 2015 7:49 AM
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October 7, 2015 7:46 AM
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The ever evolving challenges facing corporate boards, and especially this year the statements by BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard of what they expect from boards, prompts an updated snapshot of what is expected from the board of directors of a major public company—not just the legal rules, but also the aspirational “best practices” that have come to have almost as much influence on board and company behavior.
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October 7, 2015 7:46 AM
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In our paper, Active Ownership, forthcoming in the Review of Financial Studies, we analyze highly intensive engagements on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues by a large institutional investor with a major commitment to responsible investment (hereafter “ESG activism” or “active ownership”). Given the relative lack of research on environmentally and socially themed engagements, we emphasize the environmental and social (ES) engagements throughout the paper and use the corporate governance (CG) engagements as a basis for comparison.
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October 7, 2015 7:45 AM
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Accredited investors are eligible to participate in unregistered securities offerings such as private equity, venture capital and hedge fund private placements under the SEC’s Regulation D. Based o...
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October 7, 2015 7:43 AM
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The new temporary leader of DuPont knows a lot about breaking up big businesses, a skill he could put to use at the chemicals conglomerate that has fought off calls for a split for most of this year.
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October 6, 2015 9:39 AM
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Insurgents and their lawyers complain they are caught in an antitrust regime that wasn't intended for them.
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