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Do Activists Increase Long-Term Shareholder Value? New Evidence that Includes Non-Hedge Fund Activists
Shareholder activists are often accused of having short investment horizons and thus pushing companies to increase their stock prices at the expense of long-term shareholder value (“short-termism”). These accusations have prompted extensive research on interventions by hedge funds. In a …