Salient to Investors: Carl Icahn said: BlackRock have fueled a bubble in the high-yield debt market through the sale of ETFs filled with risky bonds, akin to the banks selling billions of dollars of faulty subprime mortgage bonds in 2007. The ETFs offer the appearance of liquidity and make the high-yield bond
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Corporate activists including Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Nelson Peltz targeted 81 US companies with market values exceeding $1 billion between 1/2009 and 12/31/2013, generating a 48% average gain for long-term investors versus 31% for the S&P 500. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-03-31/activists-beat-s-p-500-in-48-percent-gain-for-shareholders.html Click here to receive free and
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Hedge Fund Research said $3.8 billion went into activist funds in 2012 versus $1.8 billion in 2010. Factset Research Systems said shareholder activists started 219 campaigns in 2012 versus, up 22 percent from 2011 and the most since 2008. Patrick Ramsey at Bank of America said we have seen a
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