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What Are Activist Hedge Funds?

And why do they keep pushing for layoffs?

A phrase you will hear a lot more of in the coming months is activist hedge fund. These are funds that buy up significant amounts of a public company’s stock and then agitate for change. Some examples are Starboard Value with Salesforce and TCI (which ironically stands for The Children’s Investment Fund) with Google.