Corporate activists return 'full steam,' eye 2021, after pandemic muted activity
Message : Required fields BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist investors have ramped up demands for operational fixes, refreshed boards and sales of lackluster businesses in the last few months of 2020, a rush that will continue into the new year, bankers, investors and others said. Investors like Paul Singer's Elliott Management and William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management paused earlier in the year when the coronavirus pandemic first disrupted supply chains, displaced workforces and made it harder to conduct due diligence. But in the last quarter of 2020, activist hedge funds have ta...