activist
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Activist investor Starboard Value also revealed in March a $350 million stake in the company and urged Barr to review costs and upgrade the company’s digital trade-in experience.
From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026
Activist investors who want to force changes at underperforming closed-end funds take advantage of this rule by buying up a bunch of shares and then trying to change how the fund is run.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
Activist groups are protesting the violence and lack of resources for missing persons, while President Claudia Sheinbaum promised no crackdown on demonstrations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Activist investor Jana Partners urged Markel to sell noninsurance units and buy back $2 billion of stock, or nearly 10% of market value.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Activist pastors from South Korean churches invented the escape trade in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hiring border operatives who greased the palms of North Korean guards with cash donated by parishioners in Seoul.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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