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Hedge Fund Mgr Schoenfeld Backs Icahn/Eastbourne Amylin Slate
CNNMoney.com – A major shareholder of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. ( AMLN) is backing a slate of dissident directors nominated by Carl Icahn and another hedge-fund manager, Eastbourne Capital Management. P. Schoenfeld and Associates, which owned 2.1 million Amylin shares as […]
Advisory firms split decisions on Ackman
StarTribune.com – Score a big one for Target Corp. provocateur William Ackman. The activist shareholder got a boost from the business world’s most influential proxy advisory firm on Tuesday, when RiskMetrics Group said that investors should vote for Ackman and […]
Target’s activist shareholder to hold town meeting
Daily Times – Less than three weeks ahead of what’s expected to be a heated proxy contest at Target’s annual shareholders’ meeting, activist shareholder William Ackman aims to strengthen his case to investors for a new slate of directors by […]
Fund pushing split proposes Chemed directors
Cincinnati.com – A New York City hedge fund pushing Chemed Corp. to split up its plumbing and hospice care businesses has filed its own slate of five directors for the downtown-based company’s May 18 shareholder’s meeting. In filing its five […]
Eastbourne Proposes Amylin Directors, Backs Icahn
Bloomberg – Hedge fund Eastbourne Capital Management LLC nominated five directors to the board of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and is supporting a slate put forward by investor Carl Icahn, after it “lost confidence” in leadership of the maker of the […]
How Nat the ex-playboy is set to become a central character in Tory Corfu holiday saga
Daily Mail – One of the most beguiling questions in the Mandelson-Deripaska affair is how did Nat Rothschild become a central figure? The answer is in the way the 37-year-old scion of the banking dynasty does business. Rothschild has enviable […]
Funds Flee Morgan, Goldman for JPMorgan
New York Post – The JPMorgan Chase CEO is seeing the coffers of the bank he runs being filled with "billions of dollars a day" coming from hedge funds that have pulled their cash from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, […]
Triple A to seed new S.Korea focused hedge fund
Reuters – Boutique alternative fund firm Triple A Partners said on Friday it was backing a new South Korea-focused hedge fund which it expects to launch on Sept. 1 with around $40 million in assets. Triple A, also known as […]
