Given AmTrust’s colourful past, it would be surprising if Icahn’s argument is not simply the tip of the spear
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Given AmTrust’s colourful past, it would be surprising if Icahn’s argument is not simply the tip of the spear

Gavin Davis
21 May 2018
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Shareholder activists tend to have a bad reputation.

Part of this may be due to “availability bias”. That is, examples of negative, short-term activism come readily to mind because the press tends to over-cover machismo-driven boardroom battles.

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