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    How to Profit from Today's Biggest Activist Investors

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    By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - September 24, 2014

    Many investors would like to be able to get a piece of the success that activist investors like Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn enjoy.

    Over the past decade, activist-run funds have returned nearly 267% - more than double that of the Standard & Poor's 500 index.

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How to Profit from Today's Biggest Activist Investors

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - September 24, 2014

how to profit

Many investors would like to be able to get a piece of the success that activist investors like Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn enjoy.

Over the past decade, activist-run funds have returned nearly 267% - more than double that of the Standard & Poor's 500 index.

What many don't realize is that figuring out how to profit from the moves of today's biggest activist investors is easier than it looks.

Here's how you can piggyback on their success...

Activist Investors Show Their Hands in Latest 13F Filings

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - May 16, 2014

Activist investors like Carl Icahn and Daniel Loeb try to keep their targets a secret until they're ready to strike, but intrepid investors can scour their 13F filings for clues on what they're planning.

And aside from their activist investing, it's worth keeping an eye on what's in and out of favor with the big hedge fund managers, since their involvement often affects a stock's price.

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If I Owned Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) Stock, I'd Be Pissed

By Keith Fitz-Gerald, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Map Report - May 17, 2012

It's no wonder Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) investors are pissed. I would be too if I owned Yahoo - but I don't.

Why not?

Maybe it's the four CEOs in five years, the botched sale to Microsoft in 2008, or a Chief Executive Officer who can't be bothered to verify his own credentials in SEC filings.

Or maybe it's the dysfunctional board of directors and the erosion of massive amounts of shareholder value over the years.

Add it all up and you have an unmitigated disaster on your hands.

Activist shareholder Daniel Loeb, who owns 5.8% of the company through his hedge fund, Third Point, LLC, has every right to be angry and vocal about it.

The way I see things, Yahoo is following what I call the Christopher Columbus School of Management: it has no idea where it's going, has no idea where it's been and has no idea what to do when it arrives.

The Search for an Identity at Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO)

Yahoo was ostensibly a search engine in the beginning. The latest outgoing CEO, Scott Thompson, had been trying to rebuild the beleaguered Silicon Valley company into one more reflection of his own strengths in data personalization as opposed to the bloated advertising-driven business it has become.

Whether or not Thompson would have succeeded is now a moot point. Incoming interim CEO Ross Levinsohn has an advertising background. Talk about a conundrum.

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