Scout Capital Management Takes a Turn Toward Activism

Is Scout Capital Management becoming an activist investor?

In the past five weeks, Scout Capital Management, the New York–based hedge fund firm founded in 1999 by former Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette bankers James Crichton and Adam Weiss, has filed two 13Ds — its first such filings since 2004 — with the Securities and Exchange Commission.