Interview: Activist funds can be ‘conduits’ for positive change: Trian CIO Nikkei Asian Review By Akira Yamashita 16 March 2016 Activist funds are becoming increasingly vocal shareholders, not shying away, for example, from pushing for strategic mergers. Trian Fund Management is one such fund, having played a major role in the recently agreed merger of … Continued
Read Full ArticleCorporate Heavyweights Back Governance Practices Seeking to affect how U.S. public companies are run, a coalition of leaders endorsed practices such as avoiding dual-class shares and replacing ineffective directors Wall Street Journal By Joann S. Lublin 21 July 2016 A powerful coalition of chief executives and big asset managers endorsed a raft of corporate-governance practices … Continued
Read Full ArticleA New Status Quo for the Boardroom Ed Garden, chief investment officer of Trian Fund Management, believes the successful management teams of the future will rule through cooperation, not coercion Wall Street Journal By Ed Garden 15 July 2016 For the better part of a century, there’s been a clear separation between the ownership and … Continued
Read Full ArticleHow Nelson Peltz Gets Results Barron’s By Jonathan R. Laing July 3, 2015 You’d think that Nelson Peltz and his fellow operatives at Trian Partners would be down in the dumps after recently losing a hotly contested proxy fight to win seats on the DuPont board. That wasn’t the case when Barron’s met with … Continued
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