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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Index
A
ABN Amro Holding NV, 334
Ackman, William, 163–165, 171–172, 215, 325
Pershing Square Capital, 163, 165, 325
Acxiom Corporation, 240
Ajdler, Arnaud, Crescendo Partners, 51, 148, 290
Altman, Jeffrey, 70
Amazon.com Inc., 221
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), 205
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), 149, 215–216
American Industrial Partners, 232
American Real Estate Partners LP, 238
American Stock Exchange, 166
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, 124
Antoszyk, Peter, Proskauer Rose LLP, 266, 268
Applebee's International Inc., 337
Ashton, Zeke, founder Centaur Capital Partners, 322, 325–327
Atticus Capital LLC, 272
AutoNation Inc., 245
AutoZone Inc., 245
B
Barris, Jay, Cramer, Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, 244
Bartoli, Christopher, partner at Baker & McKenzie in Chicago, 111–112
Bailey, Clarke, Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s CEO, 104, 115
Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation, 69–70, 72
Bankruptcy, xxi, 28–29, 70, 127, 212, 244, 263–264, 266–268, 304, 316
Batchelder, David, Relational Investors, co-founder, 20, 109, 202
Bear, Stearns & Company, 69
Bebchuk, Lucian, professor Harvard Law School, xxi, 105–107
Beijing Foreign Affairs College, 300
Berkshire Hathaway, 322
BKF Capital Group Inc., 70–72, 253
Blair Corporation,
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