Skip to Content
Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking on the World
book

Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking on the World

by Ronald D. Orol
October 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
398 pages
10h 47m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking on the World

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: From Raiders to Activists and Everything in Between

Chapter 1: Growth of Activism and Why Corporate Raiders Aren't Around Anymore

Chapter 2: Nuts and Bolts: How Activists Became Who They Are Today

Chapter 3: The Pack: How Activists Are Working Together (But Not Offi cially)

Chapter 4: How Activists Use Litigation to Pursue Their Agenda

Chapter 5: Why Activists Target Certain Corporations and Leave Others Alone

Chapter 6: Overperked and Overpaid: The Impact of Activists on Executive Compensation

Chapter 7: Hedge Specialization: Good or Bad?

Chapter 8: Regulation and Activists: How the Securities and Exchange Commission Helps (or Hurts) Activists

Part Two: Institutional Investors and Activists

Chapter 9: Institutional Investors on Activist Hedge Funds: Love'em or Hate'em?

Chapter 10: Activists Taking on Large Corporations Must Have Institutional Support

Chapter 11: Institutions and Activist Hedge Funds: Breaking Up Deals Together Around the World

Chapter 12: Just Vote No and No and No Again

Chapter 13: Institutions Changing Corporate Bylaws so Activist Hedge Funds Can Get Down to Business

Chapter 14: Can't Be Them? Then Fund Them

Chapter 15: Institutions Behaving Like Activist Hedge Fund Managers

Part Three: Activism 2.0

Chapter 16: Technology, Communications, and Activists: Gary Lutin, Eric Jackson, and Anne Faulk

Chapter 17: When Is an Activist Fund Really a Private Equity Fund, and What's the Difference?

Chapter 18: Funds ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Profiting from Hedge Funds: Winning Strategies for the Little Guy

Profiting from Hedge Funds: Winning Strategies for the Little Guy

John Konnayil Vincent

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780470128008Purchase book