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Active Ownership Capital. Odey Asset Management. Starboard Value. Loeb Partners Corporation. The Firm. Icahn Enterprises - Welcome. 5th Annual Active-Passive Investor Summit. S Working Paper Series. Hedge fund news, hedge fund performance data, hedge fund research, hedge fund events, hedge fund conferences, hedge fund awards. Due Diligence Investors using the database can manipulate its performance and asset data, analytics, and index benchmarks to filter and monitor funds and strategies, with information available via our online interface, as plugins to commonly used analytics programs, or as bespoke reports delivered in a variety of formats.

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Ramius (Cowen)

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Starboard

Starboard Value was created through a spin-off transaction from Ramius LLC, the investment management subsidiary of the Cowen Group (NASDAQ: COWN). Prior to founding Starboard Value, the Starboard Value investment team managed the Ramius small cap value and opportunity investment platform. The investment strategy and performance track record was developed and initiated in 2002 by Jeff Smith and Mark Mitchell with Peter Feld joining them in February 2005.

The remaining members of the Ramius small cap value and opportunity investment team joined Starboard's Managing Members to establish the firm in March of 2011. Starboard Value LP is a New York-based investment adviser with a focused and differentiated fundamental approach to investing in publicly traded U.S. small cap companies. The Conference Board Governance Center Blog. By Chuck Nathan, Partner and Senior Advisor, RLM Finsbury Activist investing has become quite the rage in the equity marketplace.

The Conference Board Governance Center Blog

Activist investors are proliferating, and there is a marked inflow of new capital to this asset class. The discipline of activist investing is popping up in more conversations about the nature and role of equity investors. TPG-Axon Capital Management, L.P. May 18, 2013 2:26 AM ET Capital Markets Company Overview TPG-Axon Capital Management, LP (TAC) is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to high net worth individuals, pension funds, and banking institutions.

It manages limited partnerships for its clients. 888 Seventh Avenue Floor 38 New York, NY 10106-3899 United States Founded in 2005 Key Executives for TPG-Axon Capital Management, L.P. Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2012. TPG-Axon Capital Management, L.P. TPG-Axon Calls For SandRidge's Sale Nov 8 12. Greenlight Capital. Founded in 1996[4] with $900,000 (half borrowed from Einhorn's parents), Greenlight has generated greater than a twenty-five percent annualized net return for its investors.[3] It prospered in its early days by identifying weak financial firms for short selling, making significant gains from Conseco, CompuCredit, Sirrom Capital, and Resource America.[3] It also manages a fund of funds and a private equity fund through its affiliates, Greenlight Masters and Greenlight Private Equity Partners.

Greenlight Capital

It also operates Greenlight Capital Re, a property/casualty reinsurer.[2] Unlike other funds, Greenlight does not use borrowed money, or leverage. The firm does not generate large trading volumes.[3] In June 2008 there were 25 employees, including 9 analysts and 1 trader. It occupies a single high floor of an office building near Grand Central, in New York.[3] A few months before the dot-com bust, Greenlight lost 4% of its total capital on a short on Chemdex stock as it soared in price. Thirdpoint. Dan Loeb - Third Point - 2013 Stock Picks and Performance. Daniel S. Loeb. Daniel Seth Loeb (born December 18, 1961) is an American hedge fund manager.

Daniel S. Loeb

He is the founder and chief executive of Third Point LLC, a New York-based hedge fund with a portfolio worth $14 billion.[3] New York Magazine has noted that Loeb's “preferred strategy” is to buy into troubled companies, replace inefficient management, and return the companies to profitability, which “is the key to his success.”[2] As of early 2013, his personal net worth was estimated at $1.5 billion.[4] “The only thing I care about ... is making money for my investors”, he has said.[2] Biography[edit] Kynikos Associates LP. Pershing Square Capital Management. Pershing Square Capital Management is an activist hedge fund founded and run by Bill Ackman located at 888 7th Avenue in New York.[2][3][4][5] Ackman is known to occasionally hire people outside of traditional finance backgrounds; for instance, his professionals have included a former fly fishing guide, a former tennis pro and "a man whom he met in a cab.

Pershing Square Capital Management

"[6] However, most of the firm's investment professionals come from The Blackstone Group and Goldman Sachs, and earned undergraduate degrees at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard.[7] Greenlight Home Page. Wyser-Pratte Management Co., Inc. Trian Partners. Children's investment fund.