2020’s Top Hedge Fund Activist Kept Making Demands Even as the Pandemic Raged

Starboard Value was Insightia’s most influential hedge fund activist last year, beating out Elliott Management.

 Jeffrey Smith, CEO of Starboard Value. (Jacob Kepler/Bloomberg)

Jeffrey Smith, CEO of Starboard Value.

(Jacob Kepler/Bloomberg)

Don’t tell hedge fund Starboard Value that activism is in the doldrums.

Shareholder activists pulled in their horns in 2020, targeting 10 percent fewer companies than in 2019 and winning 16 percent fewer board seats, according to a recently published annual review of global activism.

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