How does an Activist asset manager create value for shareholders

How does an Activist asset manager create value for shareholders

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Strategic Insights – CEO’s Challenges How does an Activist asset manager create value for shareholders By Eric Knight, Founding Partner, Knight Vinke   Eric Knight is the firm’s Founder and CEO, has 33 years of corporate finance and investing experience, of which 18 as a specialist in “committed” (or activist) investing. He started his career in 1981 working in the corporate finance department at Merrill Lynch White Weld, initially in New York, then in London and Paris, before founding Knight Vinke & Co. in 1991. In 1996 Mr Knight co-founded Sterling Investments Ltd., a Monacobased private investment company specializing in shareholder activism and from 1996 to 2002 was its Managing Director. In 2003 he founded Knight Vinke Asset Management, an activist institutional asset manager with seed capital for its flagship fund from CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in North America. Over the course of the past 12 years, Knight Vinke has constructively engaged with many of the world’s largest public

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