Open Book: Pick Stocks Like an Activist Investor

My job as a reporter at The Deal magazine and Daily Deal newspaper is to write about the most credible and successful activist hedge fund managers, identify both their goals and incentives, and compare that to the message and performance of management at the company they are targeting.

These investors are much smarter than me, but over the past seven years I have tracked them down to explain how they operate. A wide variety of activist hedge fund managers have taken the time to let me interview them in the U.S., Europe and Asia. I've put everything I have learned about their popular and expanding craft in a new book called Extreme Value Hedging.

Good Activist Investors = Great Stock Pickers ...