One well-known activist investor, Carl Icahn (Trades, Portfolio), further increased his position in Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK) through Icahn Capital LP by 10% to $1.03 billion in the company's latest filing, with 73.05 million shares. Chesapeake is Icahn's eighth-largest holding in its $32.05 billion portfolio, and the stake represents 3.2% of Icahn´s portfolio, so we can conclude that the stock´s performance will affect its performance.
It looks like SEC head Mary Jo White thinks that shareholder activism is a good thing, at least based on her comments in Chicago on Thursday, when she said the SEC is working on rules to implement a
BERLIN Bombardier Transportation announced Monday that it has signed a contract worth $228 million U.S. for 162 Delhi Metro Rail cars. The Movia fleet of Bombardier-made trains will increase from 6...
An engagement at the Laval Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s monthly lunchtime speaker series on June 18 provided Mayor Marc Demers with the perfect podium to reveal the identity of the person the City of Laval has hired to lead a new economic development department which is replacing Laval Technopole and other agencies that were closed after former mayor Gilles Vaillancourt was ousted two years ago.
Today's prescription for board leadership is a recipe of talented directors, led by an independent chair who creates the right chemistry between them.
But teamwork, talent and chairmanship are not enough to guarantee top performance. For a board to lead, each director must ground themselves in the right mechanics.
The idea of mechanics is familiar to any football fan. They're called the team rules.
Who's on the field, their individual roles, the tasks at hand and each players approa
EBay Inc. EBAY, -0.34% said Friday its board approved the spin off of PayPal Inc. as a separate public company. EBay shareholders as of July 8 will receive one share of PayPal common stock for each eBay share on July 17. Following the distribution of the shares, PayPal will list on the Nasdaq Stock Market and trade under the ticker PYPL. EBay's ticker will remain unchanged.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a Wisconsin-based investment advisory firm and its owner accused of improperly allocating to his personal and business accounts certain options trades that appreciated in value during the course of a trading day while allocating to his clients other trades that depreciated in value.
4 Apr 10, 2014 5:43 PM EDTHas investor activism gone too far? Some shareholder champions are beginning to think so, and they may have a point.To them, a handful
It may not have the the deep pockets of Carl Icahn, but a group of churches is using shareholder activism to change how some of America's best-known companies do business.
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