JANA Partners To Focus Exclusively On Activism

Jacob Wolinsky

Published onJanuary 15, 2019

Updated on January 15, 2019

JANA Partners has announced that it will be focusing exclusively on activism. In a letter dated 1/15/2019 a copy of which was reviewed by ValueWalk, Barry Rosenstein told investors:

In 2010, we launched a dedicated, longer-duration shareholder engagement strategy called JANA Strategic Investments (JSI) as a complement to our flagship JANA and Nirvana funds (the flagship funds) which continued to pursue a broader investment strategy.

The latest news? The letter notes:

Today we are announcing that we will transform into a firm solely dedicated to our core competency of shareholder engagement, specifically JSI and other new engagement strategies.

The news was first reported by Reuters earlier today.

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Jacob Wolinsky

Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob worked as an equity analyst covering small caps, a micro-cap analyst, doing member development a large hedge fund community and freelance financial writing. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal id. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: I almost exclusively avoid the purchase of equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds. I will disclsoe if I have a stake in any company, but in general avoid

JANA Partners To Focus Exclusively On Activism

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