What is an Activist Investor, exactly?

Activist investors love to grab headlines. But what do they do, exactly? Here's Paddy Hirsch with a short explainer. #MarketplaceAPM #EconomicExplainers

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[Jude]

An activist investor attacked my company because it was too healthy. They literally destroyed the company and are directly responsible for 20, 000 being unemployed and and for what? Enriching the people that invested in their Hedge fund, which is less than 500 people. You basically have to be a billionaire to invest in that Hedge Fund in the first place. Now the price of product has gone up exponentially because there are less players in that market. So not only did they cause mass unemployment but now they’re causing inflation as well. These are evil people and they should be stopped. Their behavior should be considered antitrust however nobody has done anything to stop them.

[joesmoe]

Please tell me that laugh at the end was from Ghost and Mr. Chicken? Lol

[finance-fun-facts]

Management now has a new tool to defend against activist investors: purchasing shareholder voting rights directly.