Recent Trends In Shareholder Activism

By Warren de Wied, Philip Richter and Gail Weinstein (October 9, 2018, 12:49 PM EDT) -- Shareholder activism and corporate America's response to it continue to evolve. Perhaps the most significant impact of activism has been a more robust and extensive engagement between companies and their shareholders. Although activism faces headwinds — notably, generally poor financial performance among activist funds and now an absence of "low-hanging fruit" targets in the U.S. — the number of public activist campaigns has increased sharply in 2018 (following a slowing trend in 2016 and 2017)....

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