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Just four months ago activist investor Nelson Peltz took a 1% stake in and laid out his investment thesis for the Paris-based food giant Groupe Danone SA (PINK:DANOY). Peltz most recently made headlines...... (read more)

13F filings for the fourth quarter of 2012 are in and we have been looking through them as part of our investing strategies and in order to provide information about what many notable investors, including...... (read more)

Trian Fund Management, which disclosed a 3.3% stake worth nearly $560m in State Street in October 2011 when the giant US custody bank’s shares were valued at about $34 apiece, is understood to have...... (read more)

Ingersoll-Rand PLC (NYSE:IR) is expected to announce a plan to spin off its security-technology business, launch a share-buyback program and increase its dividend as part of a compromise reached with...... (read more)

Trian Partners is an activist hedge fund headed by Nelson Peltz and his partner Peter May. In November the fund filed its 13F with the SEC, disclosing many of its long equity positions to the general...... (read more)

The detention of the ship was ordered on application to a court by Elliott Capital Management, which has bought up debt associated with bonds on which the Argentinian government defaulted in 2001. Paddy...... (read more)

According to a filing with the SEC, billionaire Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners is down to 12.9 million shares of Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE:LM). The fund still owns 9.5% of the shares outstanding, and according...... (read more)

Mark Fetting, chief executive officer of Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE:LM), was out of time. His biggest investor, Nelson Peltz, had watched for three years as Fetting struggled to increase profit at the Baltimore...... (read more)