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The Activist Investor Explained
Lately, the term “activist investor” has become a prominent part of the public lexicon. It’s a useful way of categorizing a particular type of person who, beyond investing for retirement purposes, invests with a strategy intent on changing the world. Activist investors are motivated by all sorts of desires for the future, and anyone who chooses to invest can take an activist approach to their holdings. Here, we look at the term a little closer to try and pin down how an activist investor does what he or she does. What is the Activist Investor? The goal of an activist investor is someone, or a group or company, that approaches…