Understand what a hedge fund is and why hedge fund managers make so much money. Learn about the top 5 highest paid hedge fund managers...

Broadcast giant Media General (NYSE: MEG) got out of the print business, so it could focus on its television stations, yet if its $2.4 billion offer for Meredith (NYSE: MDP) goes through, it will be diving back into the written word, as the latter publishes magazines such as Better Homes & Gardens, Ladies Home Journal, and Martha Stewart Living...

Read about some of the holdings in Carl Icahn's portfolio. Learn about his activist campaigns against companies that he believes are performing poorly...

Strategic Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: BEE) may be ready to check out of the stock market game. That is the upshot of a press release that the company put out last week, to the effect that the company's Board of Directors is now "exploring possible strategic alternatives for the Company" up to and including "the potential sale of the Company." Management did not provide much more detail than that...

Fresh from having to terminate its planned $3.5 billion merger with U.S. Foods as the FTC balked at the food distribution giant that would be created, Sysco (NYSE: SYY) is now the target of activist billionaire investor Nelson Peltz, who has accumulated a 7% stake in the supplier to schools, hotels, and restaurants...

It is understandable that the board of directors of German fertilizer and chemical specialist K+S would stand fast against the takeover attempt by Canadian rival PotashCorp (NYSE: POT), at least until it can pry a more lucrative offer out of the company. But investors themselves often support merger offers that management rejects, because stockholders see the opposition as an attempt to preserve their power base...

Under the broad Abenomics platform, Japan has announced the steps it will take to bring in outside directors to its insular companies. Unfortunately, the recent accounting scandal at Toshiba shows that this reform isn’t happening nearly fast enough. We’ll look at some of the questions raised by this scandal that are troubling signs of how far Japan has yet to go. An independent panel revealed that Toshiba overstated its profits by more than one billion dollars over a five-year period...

As the pay gap between the average American worker and chief executive officers of public companies becomes larger, people are questioning what’s behind this disparity and what drives the pay of CEOs. According to the AFL-CIO, a federation of labor organizations, for instance, the salary of a typical S&P 500 company CEO in 2014 was 373 times the salary of an average rank-and-file worker...

Activist shareholders, also called activist investors, are large-scale investors who use their investment power to influence public companies. While their goals can vary widely, the strategies activist shareholders use are generally similar. Activist shareholders look for opportunities to find and create market value in companies they perceive as poorly managed, or where an opportunity for growth exists and has yet to be exploited...

Discover why shareholder rights plans are often called "poison pills" to fight hostile takeovers and give smaller corporations an effective defense mechanism...

Expectations are low that Japan can create a corporate governance climate that meets global standards, but a new initiative is aimed at doing just that...

Discover the intriguing debt and equity characteristics of preferred stock, and learn about how preferred stock dividends are taxed...

A director's responsibility to act at all times in the best interests of the company...

A proxy vote is a vote cast by an entity or person on behalf of another. This sets the stage for a proxy fight between the current management and directors and the group trying to usher in change...

In the dramatic world of M&As, battleground terms meld with bizarre metaphors to form the language of the game...

Corporate structure can tell you a lot about a company's potential...

Shareholders are getting a bigger say in how companies are run. Find out how you can be heard...