The Road Ahead For Shareholder Activism After 'Record Year'

By Warren de Wied, Philip Richter and Gail Weinstein (January 25, 2019, 4:10 PM EST) -- Notwithstanding that shareholder activist funds themselves continue to have below-market returns, shareholder activism continues to expand and intensify. While many commentators have cited 2018 as a record year for activism in terms of number of campaigns, capital deployed, number of activists involved, first-time activists, and board seats obtained, the growth of activism from 2017 to 2018 was modest, particularly when campaigns against an announced merger and short seller campaigns are excluded. In addition, first time targets in the U.S. represented less than 43 percent of targets of financial activists....

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