Christopher Hohn Rethinks Activism

After years of stellar returns, hedge fund activist Chris Hohn’s flagship fund lost 12 percent through June this year. Now Hohn, who sparked the sale of ABN Amro and recently battled CSX, tells Alpha that he’ll be less activist going forward.

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Christopher Hohn is beside himself. It’s a dreary rain-swept morning in early September, and Hohn, looking more like a graduate student, with his rimless glasses and rumpled shirt, than the most feared shareholder activist in Europe, strides briskly across a conference room in his hedge fund’s stark, glass-partitioned, modern headquarters in Mayfair, London, and drops down into a black leather chair.

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