Loeb Fires Latest Salvo In Effort To Crash Exclusive Sothebys Board

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Mark Melin
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Activist investor Daniel Loeb let loose another salvo in his war of words with the ever so puritan establishment icon on whose board of directors he is trying to crash, Sothebys (NYSE:BID). “Re-invigorate” company: Loeb In a letter to shareholders of the venerable high end auction house, Loeb promoted himself along with two other director nominees for election to the board so as to “re-invigorate” the company. Loeb makes the argument that while the general market environment for high end auctions has improved, Sothebys (NYSE:BID) has failed to properly capitalize on these opportunities. “Sotheby’s has lost market share in highly profitable…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.