Activist Investing
Shareholder Activism Series | Activist Investing: Background, Impact and the Players
On April 16th, 2012 Stanford's Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance kicked off their Shareholder Activism Series with a discussion titled "Activist Investing: Background, Impact and the Players." The series featured Mason Morfit, a Partner at ValueAct Capital and one of the ...
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- Tags: Shareholder Activism Arthur and Toni Rembe Abe Friedman Mason Morfit
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Icahn Picks Up 14% Stake in CVR Energy
Activist investor Carl Icahn and his fund picked up a 14 and a half percent stake in CVR Energy (CVI.N), saying the shares were undervalued. Now CVR is an independent petroleum refiner and and marketer of transportation fuels. Experts say Icahn will most likely remain passive in CVR. The stock is...
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- Length: 1:07
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- Tags: CVR Energy Carl Icahn business finance investing stock trading news analysis market
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Carl Icahn may Buy Stake in Research in Motion - Shares Surge (RIMM)
Rumors are swirling this morning that activist investor Carl Icahn may purchase a stake in Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM). Following his failed attempt to replace Clorox's (NYSE:CLX) board or directors, Icahn may be looking for another opportunity to put pressure on management. Icahn has not ye...
- financialnewsonline
- Length: 0:42
- Views: 211
- Tags: Carl Icahn Research In Motion blackberry RIMM business finance news investing trading
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Hewlett-Packard Hired Goldman To Help Defend Itself Against Activist Investors
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) has hired Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) to help the company defend itself against activist investors that could push for change at the company. The report cited people familiar with the matter. The company has felt vulnerable to activist investor pressure as questions surface...
- financialnewsonline
- Length: 0:51
- Views: 37
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard HPQ business finance news investing trading
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Bill Ackman: Invest in the Business You Can Own Forever
In this portion of his Floating University lecture, activist investor William Ackman talks about investing in the kind of company that you can own forever. Find out more at www.floatinguniversity.com
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- Length: 3:03
- Views: 2192
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Bill Ackman: Investing is Going to Be Important to You, Whether You Like It or Not
Activist investor, hedge-fund manager, and Floating University lecturer Bill Ackman explains the importance of investing over the long run. Find out more at www.floatinguniversity.com
- floatinguniversity
- Length: 2:20
- Views: 1710
- Tags: final fuyoutube
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FBI investing in invasiveness of activists
According to the FBI, people scrawling with sidewalk chalk and even those attending documentary screenings of controversial films can pose a threat to Homeland Security. Chicano activist Carlos Montes says this new widespread attack targeted against peace advocates and immigration rights activist...
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- Length: 4:25
- Views: 11000
- Tags: lauren lyster rt rttv rt tv rtamerica rt america russia today chicao immigration peace advocate activist carlos montes homeland security fbi spy spying documentaries chalk descent outspoken censor
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Jeffrey Ubben: The Evolution of the Active Value Investment Style (1)
According to Wikipedia, an activist shareholder "uses an equity stake in a corporation to put public pressure on its management". However, that is not true for all of them. Some value and activist investors today chose a completely different and more effective approach. In this new Opalesque BACK...
- opalesquetv
- Length: 15:08
- Views: 5183
- Tags: Jeffrey Ubben Jeff Ubben valueact Hedge Fund Activist Investing
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Phil Goldstein: The Bulldog's passion for value investing
Phil Goldstein is co-founder and principal of Bulldog Investors, a well-known value investing group of funds that uses activist investing practices to unlock intrinsic value in publicly traded equity and debt securities. Before his career as an investment manager he worked for the city of New Yor...
- opalesquetv
- Length: 15:53
- Views: 3063
- Tags: Phil Goldstein Bulldog Investors value investing activist investing Opalesque TV
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Jeffrey Ubben: The Evolution of the Active Value Investment Style (2)
According to Wikipedia, an activist shareholder "uses an equity stake in a corporation to put public pressure on its management". However, that is not true for all of them. Some value and activist investors today chose a completely different and more effective approach. In this new Opalesque BACK...
- opalesquetv
- Length: 9:52
- Views: 2869
- Tags: Jeffrey Ubben Jeff Ubben valueact Hedge Fund Activist Investing
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Carl Icahn Offers to Acquire Clorox for $76.50 per Share
Activist Investor Carl Icahn disclosed that on July 14, he sent a letter to Donald Knauss, CEO of Clorox (NYSE:CLX) with a proposal to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares not owned for $76.50 per share net in cash. Icahn also disclosed that his affiliates have obtained a highly confi...
Phil Goldstein Part 2: Proxy fights and hedge fund rights
This is Part II of the Opalesque.TV interview with Phil Goldstein, the co-founder and principal of Bulldog Investors. In this Opalesque.TV interview, Phil Goldstein talks about the value of Bulldog's track record in waging full proxy fights, and how their reputation helps them to work with manage...
- opalesquetv
- Length: 9:23
- Views: 823
- Tags: Phil Goldstein Bulldog Investors value investing activist investing Opalesque TV Proxy fights hedge fund rights
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Social Good With Market Returns? Investors And Entrepreneurs Are Having It Both Ways
The idea of using profit-seeking investment to generate social and environmental good is moving from a periphery of activist investors to the core of mainstream financial institutions. This emerging class of investors reaches far beyond the 'do no harm' world of socially responsible investing to ...
What's In The News: May 14, 2012
This is what's in the news for Monday, May 14, 2012. The Wall Street Journal reports GM's (NYSE:GM) plan to return its troubled European unit to profitability is taking shape as the company heads into its first major showdown with the region's powerful labor unions amid the latest restructuring. ...
- financialnewsonline
- Length: 1:18
- Views: 18
- Tags: whats in the news business finance investing stock news trading analysis market
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Yahoo May Use PIPE Transaction to Block Activist Holders (YHOO)
The New York Times reported that Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), instead of selling the company outright, is weighing a large scale of stock to one or more private equity firms using a controversial structure known as a private investment in public equity, or PIPE. The story reported that a leveraged recapi...
Maria Bello Delivers Closing Keynote at Global Impact Economy Forum
Actor and activist Maria Bello talks about how investing in women is creating a more inclusive economy in Haiti at the Global Impact Economy Forum in Washington, DC. US Department of State's Ambassador-at-Large Melanne Verveer and US Agency for International Development's Dr. Maura O'Neill provid...
- gpiatstate
- Length: 43:28
- Views: 243
- Tags: Maria Bello We Advance Melanne Verveer Maura O'Neill Haiti Investing in Women Impact Economy Impact Investment Inclusive Development
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Talent as investment
This video is about talent as investment. This video is in Tamil which talks about investing your talent to win your life and to change the world. The entire conversation is about for the social change and possible methods through being a successful activist | a change agent.
- sathishtarnas
- Length: 11:04
- Views: 76
- Tags: Talent investment satish tarnas INCUBE
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Global Impact Economy Forum: Amb. Melanne Verveer, Dr. Maura O'Neill, Maria Bello
On April 26, 2012 at the Global Impact Economy Forum, actor and activist Maria Bello discusses how her foundation, WE ADVANCE, is helping to advance the Impact Economy in Haiti through investment in women. Ambassador Melanne Verveer introduces Ms. Bello and Dr. Maura O'Neill contextualizes the im...
- gpiatstate
- Length: 43:28
- Views: 46
- Tags: Maria Bello Melanne Verveer Global Impact Economy Forum Global Partnerships Initiative Kris Balderston We Advance Haiti Impact Investing Eco-Tourism Conference
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TEDxSanJoaquin - Wiclif Otieno - Investing in Youth
As a former street boy, Wiclif brings deep connections and a superior understanding of the street youth community. After transitioning out of street life, he went on to create Eco Safi Products, a reform youth enterprise project that empowers youth and harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit while...
- tedxtalks
- Length: 14:34
- Views: 287
- Tags: United States English tedxsanjoaquin tedx Business Education Global Issues Culture Social Change Youth Social Entrepreneurship
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2012 Land Investment Expo presented by Peoples Company
The Land Investment Expo, presented by Peoples Company, is catered to individuals and institutions that are either currently investing in, or interested in learning more about investing in land. The Expo brings together varying facets of the land industry and provides knowledge, ideas and network...
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- Length: 0:36
- Views: 150
- Tags: land investment farm agriculture development real estate
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Cherry Blossom Solar. 14
How solar energy came to rule the world. After Fukushima, suddenly 90% of the people in Japan realized that they loved solar and had no use for nukes. It was a solar awakening. Fortunately, there was one anti-nuke activist in a position of power to do something. Naoto Kan did something really big...
- paul8kangas
- Length: 3:33
- Views: 7
- Tags: Japan solar cherry blossom.
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New revolution sweeps Germany!
12000 Solar workers demonstrate in Germany to protect the Feed in tariff law that gives homeowners the power to take over trhe Germany economy. How solar energy came to rule the world. After Fukushima, suddenly 90% of the people in Japan realized that they loved solar and had no use for nukes. It...
- paul8kangas
- Length: 7:45
- Views: 46
- Tags: Germany solar strike.
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DTE Pay Your Taxes! We Need Clean & Safe Energy!
DTE Pay Your Taxes! - We Need Clean & Safe Energy! DTE March & Demonstrations! This Is How They Treat Us, DTE & Police! - - A No Struggle, No Development Production! By KennySnod * * DTE and their shareholders have the power to change the economic condition of our communities by investing in clea...
- kennysnod
- Length: 23:52
- Views: 37
- Tags: DTE Police March May Shareholders Power Economic Communities Investment Clean Energy Nuclear Plant Michigan Families Shutoffs Dangerous Global Change Solar Climate Lake Green Gas Wind
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Germany is now the greenest place.
We are fighting PG&E, who is trying to stop the Feed In tariffs. Monday, 3-12-12, 12000 homeowners, unionists, Solar installers , & Green Party members demonstrate to protect the Feed in tariff law that gives homeowners the power to get rid of PG&E & take over the economy. The Merkel gov. was try...
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- Length: 9:44
- Views: 57
- Tags: Solar
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Nelson Mandela & Desmond Tutu at 1994 World Pension Forum Conference
By not investing in apartheid South Africa, pension funds and other socially conscious investors helped bring much needed change to a land governed by old thought. In 1990 Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist imprisoned for 27 years, was released by President FW de Klerk. In 1993 Mandela an...
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- Length: 8:56
- Views: 474
- Tags: Nelson Mandela Desmond Tutu pension funds anti-apartheid South Africa investing
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Japan going 100% solar.
The key issue in this election is how to create JOBS. The best way for California to create 10 million new jobs is for millions of homeowners to install Solar panels. Each homeowner who installs 20 panels creates jobs for electricians, roofers & related workers. German home owners were inspired t...
- paul8kangas
- Length: 6:58
- Views: 78
- Tags: solar nukes Energy japan Germany California Jobs homeowners grid cash flow feed-in tariff money
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This Is How They Treat Us! DTE & Police
This Is How They Treat Us, DTE & Police! March, May 3, 2012 - - A No Struggle, No Development Production! By KennySnod * * DTE and their shareholders have the power to change the economic condition of our communities by investing in clean energy. Clean energy like wind and solar are cleaner and c...
- kennysnod
- Length: 2:33
- Views: 20
- Tags: DTE Police March May Shareholders Power Economic Communities Investment Clean Energy Nuclear Plant Michigan Families Shutoffs Dangerous United States (Country) America
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