October 2007
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
10h 47m
English
book
Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking on the World
by Ronald D. Orol
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Contents
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?
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
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?
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