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Executive Search Firms in Finance: Unlocking Fiscal Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Every organization has unique dynamics and strategic goals, from investment banks to hedge funds and private equity firms. As an executive search firm, it is important to develop a comprehensive understanding of the industry’s intricacies, including its various sectors, such as banking, investment, insurance, and asset management.

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Why an Activist Hedge Fund Cares Whether Apple’s Devices Are Bad for Kids

Harvard Business Review

On January 6, 2017, JANA Partners , a New York–based activist hedge fund, and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) sent a letter to Apple’s board of directors that may change the future of activist investing. Tim Ellis/Getty Images. A main explanation is that, as always, they are following the money.

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One Big Reason There’s So Little Competition Among U.S. Banks

Harvard Business Review

Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. This collective flood of individual investment has turned asset management companies into ginormous shareholders. BlackRock alone manages about $4.7 trillion in assets.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Collectively, the world’s investment giants hold in excess of $70 trillion in assets, which represents the bulk of investable capital globally. Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants.

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Japan Is Counting on Shareholder Activism to Improve Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

CEOs live in fear of activist hedge funds, and politicians worry about their effects on workers. Since the global financial crisis, a new wave of “constructive,” or friendly, activists (typically referred to as engagement funds) has tackled the same corporate governance issues, but with an explicitly low-key, humbler approach.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Institutions have been raising tuition just to keep the lights on. They’re quite good at it, on the whole.

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CEOs Can Attract Long-Term Investors

Harvard Business Review

Volatility has returned to global markets, and consumer and business confidence is once again slipping. In scores of conversations I've had with business leaders, pension fund trustees, asset managers, employer associations, and NGOs since I first issued this call in HBR , everyone has agreed with the goal.