Posts related to ‘Activist Investor’

Icahn Tries To Replace Four Chesapeake Directors

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 4:39 pm

Carl Icahn has used the mess at Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) to try to take four board seats. Chesapeake's shares have cratered because of trouble involving the side-by-side investments of ...
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SEC Charges Another Ponzi Scheme, $157 Million in Florida

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 3:59 pm

Bernie Madoff is alive in prison, but his extreme Ponzi scheme living has led to more and charges brought against other Ponzi schemes. Now comes news that the Securities and Exchange ...
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Icahn Now Owns 80% of CVR Energy

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 7:46 am

Investor Carl Icahn now holds about 80% of oil refiner and fertilizer maker CVR Energy Inc. (NYSE: CVI). Icahn held about 69% of the company before the close of his ...
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New Board at Canadian Pacific Wastes No Time

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 9:11 am

The 16-member board of directors of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (NYSE: CP) today includes 7 new members nominated by William Ackman and his hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management. The ...
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Hedge Fund Stock Picks: Whale Hunting of the Kingmakers

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 5:43 pm

24/7 Wall St. published the full list of positions already for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). While there were some surprises out there and 24/7 Wall St. tracked ...
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Big Shareholder Attacks Pepsi

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:28 am

Shareholder activist firm Relational Investors has bought $600 million of PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) shares according to The Wall Street Journal. Large companies are not immune from the kind of attacks ...
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Big Changes to Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to Z

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 5:05 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings for the Berkshire Hathaway empire. This cut off date is as of ...
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S&P Drops Chesapeake’s Credit Rating

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 10:01 am

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s this morning lowered the corporate credit rating of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) from ‘BB’ to ‘BB-’, and put the company on negative credit watch. ...
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Chesapeake Discloses CEO Well Participation Dollar Amounts… Huge!

Posted: May 11, 2012 at 1:46 pm

SEC filings are often long and full of details that make most investors have a glassing-over look in their eyes. Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) has filed its proxy materials for ...
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Nelson Peltz Joins Warren Buffett With Ingersoll-Rand (IR, BRK-A, BRK-B)

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 10:13 am

Ingersoll-Rand Plc (NYSE: IR) is often overlooked as a key company despite a nearly $13 billion market value. The news is out that Nelson Peltz has taken a 7.1% stake in the ...
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Chesapeake’s Largest Shareholder Gets More Aggressive (CHK)

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 2:40 pm

Southeastern Asset Management, Inc. is getting aggressive against Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK). This is no ordinary shareholder either: it is the largest listed shareholder. The new filing shows some ...
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Most Likely Stock Purchases By Warren Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B, CVS, DVA, DTV, DG, GD, INTC, IBM, LMCA, V, WFC)

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 12:04 pm

Warren Buffett hosted the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) over the weekend and this Monday morning he gave a long interview to CNBC. In the interview Mr. Buffett noted how ...
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