Institutional Investor Activism : Hedge Funds and Private Equity, Economics and Regulation

Over the past two decades, activist investors have begun to play an increasingly important role in corporate governance around the world. This book analyses the impact of activists on the companies that they invest, the effects on shareholders and on activists funds themselves.

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Bratton, William
Other Persons:	McCahery, Joseph A (contributor)
Publisher:	Oxford : Oxford University Press
Subject:	Private Equity \| Private equity \| Hedgefonds \| Hedge fund \| Institutioneller Investor \| Institutional investor \| Regulierung \| Regulation
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

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Extent:	1 online resource (817 pages)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. ""Cover""; ""Institutional Investor Activism: Hedge Funds and Private Equity, Economics and Regulation""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Table of Cases""; ""List of Contributors""; ""1. Introduction""; ""Part I The Disempowered Shareholder""; ""2. The Evolution of Shareholder Activism in the United States""; ""3. The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise""; ""4. Shareholder Activism through Proxy Proposals: The European Perspective""; ""Part II Hedge Fund Activism"" ""A. Patterns and Policy Questions-Dark Sides and Light Sides""""5. Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control""; ""6. The Rise and Fall (?) of Shareholder Activism by Hedge Funds""; ""B. Ownership Stakes, Operating Results, and Financial Returns""; ""7. Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes UK Focus Fund""; ""8. Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance""; ""9. Entrepreneurial Shareholder Activism: Hedge Funds and Other Private Investors"" ""C. Strategic Holding versus Collective Interest: Empty Voting and Bankruptcy Reorganization""""10. Debt, Equity, and Hybrid Decoupling: Governance and Systemic Risk Implications""; ""11. Antibankruptcy""; ""12. Hedge Funds and Chapter 11""; ""Part III Private Equity and Corporate Governance""; ""A. Structure and Motivation""; ""13. Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity""; ""B. How has Private Equity Performed?""; ""14. Performance of Buyout Funds Revisited""; ""Part IV The Regulatory Framework"" ""A. Structural Treatment of Hedge Funds and Private Equity: Investor Protection and Systemic Risk""""15. Hedge Fund Regulation and Governance""; ""16. The Limits of EU Hedge Fund Regulation""; ""17. Recasting Private Equity Funds after the Financial Crisis: The End of 'Two and Twenty' and the Emergence of Co-Investments and Separate Accounts""; ""B. Regulation and the Costs and Benefits of Shareholder Activism""; ""18. The Law and Economics of Blockholder Disclosure""; ""19. The Destructive Ambiguity of Federal Proxy Access""; ""C. Law Reform: The Burden of Persuasion"" ""20. Hedge Fund Activism: What Do We Know and Not Know?""""21,. The Case against Shareholder Empowerment""; ""Index""
ISBN:	978-0-19-103978-2 ; 978-0-19-872394-3
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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