This guy has been researching Activist funds for a while. I've spoken to him in the past when I was considering doing activist fund research,and he definitely knows what he's talking about.
http://activistinvesting.blogspot.com/
for example, a list of top 50 activist funds...
Barington Capital
Knightspoint
Relational Investors
Breeden Capital
Lawndale Capital
Riley Investment Management
Bulldog Investors
Liberation Investment
RLR Capital
Cannell Capital
Lion Fund
SAC Capital
Carl Icahn
Locksmith Capital
Sandell Asset Managament
Chapman Capital
Loeb Arbitrage
Shamrock Activist Value Fund
Clinton Group
MFP Investors
Steel Partners
Costa Brava
MMI Investments
Steel Partners (Japan)
Crescendo Partners
Monarch Activist Fund
Strategic Turnaround Partners
Dalton Investments (Japan)
Nanes Balkany Partners
Sun Capital
Discovery Equity Partners
New Mountain Capital
TCI
Elliott Associates
Newcastle Capital
Third Point
Firebrand Capital
Nierenberg Investment
Trian Fund
FrontFour Capital
Obrem Capital
ValueAct Capital
Gamco Investors
Oliver Press Partners
Wattles Capital
Greenlight Capital
Owl Creek
Western Investment
Harbinger Capital
Pershing Square Capital
Wintergreen Advisers
Ironfire Capital
Pirate Capital
Wynnefield Capital
Jana Partners
Ramius Capital
Define activist as it applies to hedge funds, please.
In general, activist hedge funds invest to influence the management in some way that will bring about a return for the fund.
wait, what?
and I didn't think GAMCO was a hedge fund ... they're an asset manager.
you're right, they're not. i corrected my original post. it's a list of funds, not necessarily hedge funds.
Asset managers can have multiple products ranging from mutual funds to hedge funds.
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