Sounding Populist Themes, Carl Icahn Campaigns For eBay Votes

Mark Melin

Published onMarch 26, 2014

Updated on May 13, 2021

Calling for a “watershed moment for stockholder participation,” activist hedge fund manager Carl Icahn called into question the current system of electing directors to corporate boards – and attacks his current favorite target, eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY)’s management and board of directors.

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Blog post focuses on popular issues, avoids discussion of impact of PayPal losing customer revenue stream from eBay

In a blog post today, Icahn focused on the larger – and politically populist – issue of shaking up corporate boards and giving a voice to average shareholders. Starting with popular...

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Mark Melin

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.

Sounding Populist Themes, Carl Icahn Campaigns For eBay Votes

Blog post focuses on popular issues, avoids discussion of impact of PayPal losing customer revenue stream from eBay

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