Activist Investing Today: Columbia’s Coffee on WeWork, Softbank and IPO Ratchets
Retail investors are being harmed by essentially secret IPO protection deals still-private companies are reaching with mutual funds. At least that’s the view of Columbia Law School professor John Coff...
12 Dec 201915min
Drinks With The Deal: Chris Varelas
The former Citi tech investment banker and author of 'How Money Became Dangerous' talks with The Deal’s David Marcus about working at Disneyland in the 1980s, being a tech banker in after the dot-com ...
6 Dec 201929min
Activist Investing Today: Antitrust Expert Talks Activism
Diana Moss, president of the American Antitrust Institute, suggested that financial activists are exerting pressure on companies to merge even though they carry a high amount of antitrust or other reg...
22 Nov 201917min
Drinks With The Deal: PJ Solomon's Marc Cooper
PJ Solomon’s Marc Cooper talks about brand authenticity, the challenges of being a CEO and the joys of the half-bottle.
8 Nov 201929min
Activist Investing Today: Snow Park’s Pierce Talks Activism in Australia
Jeffrey Pierce, managing partner at activist fund Snow Park Capital, discusses his experiences with agitation at an Australian REIT and gives commentary the recent situation between Elliott and BHP as...
18 Okt 201918min
Activist Investing Today: McRitchie Targets Shareholder Proposals, BRT’s ‘Stakeholders’
The top proponent of shareholder proposals spoke to The Deal’s Activist Investing Today podcast about what he thinks would happen if the nation’s securities regulator made it more difficult to submit ...
13 Sep 201920min
Activist Investing Today: Goodwin On Friedman Doctrine and CEO Lobby’s Stakeholders Push
Goodwin On CEO Lobby’s ‘Stakeholders’ Push -The chief of the Applied Corporate Governance Institute told The Deal that Milton Friedman’s 1970 doctrine of shareholder primacy is misunderstood and that ...
30 Aug 201919min
Activist Investing Today: Harvard’s Roe Disputes Perceptions Around Short-termism and Activists
Activist funds face an uphill effort getting the votes they need to effectuate change. That’s the view of Mark Roe, professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Roe spoke with The Deal for its Activist Inv...
13 Aug 201919min
