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Ken Bertsch, the executive director of the Council of Institutional Investors speaks with The Deal for its Activist Investing Today podcast about why he thinks 5% threshold poison pills are an 'extrao...

9 Jun 202025min

Sarah Frier, the author of the new book 'No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram' and a technology reporter for Bloomberg, talks about how the app’s co-founder Kevin Systrom was able to succeed for s...

4 Jun 202027min

Joe Bauernfreund, manager of a $1 billion sometimes activist U.K. fund Asset Value Investors, discussed why he may start submitting shareholder proposals at Fujitec’s annual meeting in 2021 if it does...

29 Mai 202018min

Colin Steen, managing director at Syngenta Ventures, talks about investing opportunities in the agriculture and food sectors in the The Deal's inaugural edition of Behind the Buyouts, the new podcast ...

28 Mai 202025min

David Skeel, a bankruptcy professor at the University of Pennsylvania, talks about his work with the Puerto Rico Oversight Board and the lessons of the great financial crisis for the bankruptcy system...

14 Mai 202029min

Activist investor Phil Goldstein believes a recent Securities and Exchange Commission decision upholding a closed-end fund's right to ignore a shareholder proposal poses a broader threat to investor r...

7 Mai 202018min

Eric Jackson, manager of technology-focused hedge fund EMJ Capital, says he thinks the company should use cash on hand — and proceeds from expected unit sales — to make its own acquisitions. Jackson e...

22 Apr 202020min

The activist investor Ben Rosenzweig talked about why Privet doesn’t want to buy Synalloy now even though he is seeking to take control of its board. He also discussed Privet’s partnership with an ope...

30 Mar 202027min