Activists Getting Ready To Target Largest Corporations

Activist investors are getting larger and are likely to become a growing threat to previously difficult to influence US mega-corporations, the next stage in activist hedge fund investing, say hedge fund sources close to the situation, a growing trend previously documented in ValueWalk. Activists preparing a war chest This notion is re-enforced by the recent news that activist investor Dan Loeb, founder of the activist hedge fund Third Point LLC, recently raised $2.5 billion with apparent ease, a Wall Street Journal article by David Benoit and Juliet Chung indicates.  Other activists, including Jana Partners, Trian Fund Management and Pershing Square Capital Management…