{"id":3639,"date":"2005-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"shareholders-take-on-role-of-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2005\/shareholders-take-on-role-of-activists.html","title":{"rendered":"Shareholders take on role of activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major shareholders are increasingly turning into activists, putting pressure on executives in almost every industry to step up their performance at the risk of losing their jobs &#8212; or theircompanies.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the activism, often by hedge funds, is pushing share prices higher and forcing management to unlock value.<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" class=\"table\">\n<tr>\n<td>    <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>But it is also raising questions about whether some investors are creating a short-term pop in some share prices, yet leaving the companies less healthy for the long haul.<\/p>\n<p>The list of companies in the sights of activists includes large firms, such as Time Warner Inc., McDonald&#8217;s Corp., German stock-market operator Deutsche Boerse AG, Morgan Stanley, Six Flags Inc. andOfficeMax Inc. Sometimes they gently push the companies, with ideas and promises of support; other times they push hard for a sale or other steps.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.napavalleyregister.com\/articles\/2005\/11\/25\/business\/stories_from_ap\/iq_3181757.txt\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major shareholders are increasingly turning into activists, putting pressure on executives in almost every industry to step up their performance at the risk of losing their jobs &#8212; or theircompanies. Some of the activism, often by hedge funds, is pushing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}