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Lauren Wolfe of Impactive Capital presents thesis for HD Supply

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Lauren Taylor Wolfe of Impactive Capital, an impact-oriented activist investing firm, presented her thesis for HD Supply at the Invest for Kids conference late last week. Wolfe is one of the very few women who work in activist investing.

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HD Supply is one of Impactive's biggest positions. The fund added to it in March and April and now owns a little over 1 million shares. Wolfe also sits on the company's board of directors.

Wolfe said one of the key criteria for her fund is quality. Impactive Capital looks for quality businesses in which they see a multi-year, attractive double-digit investment...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.