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Investor activism

  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Insurance
    Activist investor Farallon makes ‘final frontier’ bet on Japanese insurer T&D

    San Francisco-based fund pushes for change with Japan seen as next leg of sector’s development

    Dai-ichi Life Insurance head office building in Tokyo
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Japanese business & finance
    UK activist fund Palliser takes stake in Japanese tyremaker

    Toyo Tire under pressure to consider options including sale as auto sector consolidates

  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Tesla Inc
    Pension fund investors demand Musk work 40-hour week at Tesla

    Shareholders say EV maker is in ‘crisis’ and call for succession planning

    Elon Musk is seated at a table in the Cabinet Room at the White House, wearing a red cap with the text "TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!" He has his hands clasped in front of him.
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Seven & i Holdings Co Ltd
    Shareholders back 7-Eleven owner’s management amid $50bn takeover battle

    Seven & i’s annual meeting approves all board members and proposals to clear way for new CEO’s appointment

    Seven & i Holdings President Ryuichi Isaka (L) shakes hands with outside director Stephen Dacus
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Jony Ive and Sam Altman take on Apple Premium content

    Plus, Trump’s 401k and Elliott’s Phillips 66 showdown

    Jony Ive
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Elliott Management Corp
    Hedge fund Elliott wins two seats on Phillips 66 board

    Investment firm has lobbied for sweeping changes at US energy group

    A general view of a Phillips 66 petrol station in Oceanside, New York
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Insurance
    Daniel Loeb’s Third Point Investors in deal to create London-listed insurer

    Planned reverse takeover of reinsurer Malibu Life has already met resistance from fund shareholder AVI

    Daniel Loeb
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Swatch Group SA
    Activist investor fails to win Swatch board seat

    GreenWood Investors’ Steven Wood says he will consider requesting an extraordinary meeting

    Blancpain X Swatch watches on display
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    News in-depthSwatch Group SA
    Activist takes on Swatch maverick as Omega empire falters

    Nick Hayek has overseen a decade of decline at the watchmaker. Can he see off the threat to his grip on the group?

    Montage of Swatch chief executive Nick Hayek, two Blancpain x Swatch watches and a chart
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Lex
    Elliott’s hardball tactics at Phillips 66 should pay off Premium content

    Fund insists honey rather than vinegar is its preferred approach but it is prepared to play tough

    Mark Lashier is both chief executive and chair at Phillips 66
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Adidas AG
    Adidas chair in re-election fight as investors plot revolt

    DWS plans to vote against Thomas Rabe because of ‘repeated breach of expectations’

    Adidas shoes on a display stand
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Proxy adviser ISS backs Elliott in fight against Phillips 66

    Resounding endorsement gives hedge fund a leg-up in campaign to overhaul refiner’s board

    The Phillips 66 at a petrol station
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Due Diligence
    The activist winding up Omega-maker Swatch Premium content

    Plus, creditors draw battle lines at Altice and Millennium in talks to sell stakes

    The Omega ‘Seamaster Planet Ocean’ watch worn by Daniel Craig during the filming of ‘Casino Royale’
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Swatch Group SA
    Swatch investor takes aim at family behind Omega and Longines

    Steven Wood accuses Hayek family of sidelining minority shareholders in Swatch Group as he campaigns for board seat

    People walk past a Swatch shop
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    UK companies
    Activist investor’s play for Upper Crust owner sets stage for takeover

    Irenic Capital Management has built a 2 per cent stake in SSP and is pushing UK group to boost profitability

    Passengers buy food from an Upper Crust bakery shop in a train station
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto shareholders reject activist proposal for review of London listing

    Only 19% support Palliser Capital’s resolution to review consolidating miner’s shares in Australia

    A panel of executives from Rio Tinto is seated behind a long red table at the company’s annual meeting
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    LexCorporate governance
    A show of hands: Let’s hear it for the annual general meeting Premium content

    HSBC is the latest company to consider ditching physical annual general meetings

    People walk by a HSBC branch
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Dan Loeb’s Third Point builds stake in maker of Tylenol and Neutrogena

    Johnson & Johnson spin-off Kenvue may become takeover target as activists circle the consumer health group

    Dan Loeb
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Due Diligence
    The man behind Elliott’s BP battle Premium content

    Plus, the duo taking on the Big Four and Nomura’s risk-on trading overhaul

    A smartphone with the logo of US investment firm Elliott Management
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    Elliott Management Corp
    Elliott’s ‘lone wolf’: the hedge fund maverick waging war on Big Oil

    Other activist investors now take a less confrontational approach. John Pike is in a full-blown proxy fight

    John Pike with logos of Elliott Management, BP and Philips 66
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Elliott’s BP pressure campaign Premium content

    Plus, the man behind Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Project Jes’ and the private credit partnership that’s taking off

    BP logo
  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    BP PLC
    Hedge fund Elliott turns up heat on BP with demand for deep spending cuts

    US activist discloses 5% stake and warns pivot back to oil and gas does not go far enough

    An aerial view of the tanker and another smaller vessel at the refinery
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    BP PLC
    BP faces shareholder backlash over U-turn on green strategy

    Legal & General is ‘deeply concerned’ by decision to pivot back to oil and gas

    BP sign at a service station
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Phillips 66 Co
    Elliott Management steps up proxy campaign against refiner Phillips 66

    US hedge fund seeks investor support to divest assets and install new board members to unlock value

    Phillips 66’s Bayview refinery in Linden, New Jersey
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Nippon Steel
    Nippon Steel accused by activist of harming minority investors in subsidiary

    3D Investment Partners’ claim comes as steelmaker tries to push ahead with $15bn takeover of US Steel

    The image shows the Nippon Steel plant located in Kashima, Japan. The scene captures several tall chimneys emitting smoke
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