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A Bigger Voice For Small Investors (Business Week)

January 12th, 2007

A Bigger Voice For Small Investors (Business Week)

The very rich, F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed, “are different from you and me.” That has applied even to shareholder activism, a niche of the investing world dominated by hedge fund managers who are paid enormous fees to holler and claw for every last nickel of return on behalf of their wealthy clients.

But with corporations under mounting pressure to acknowledge shareholder rights, ordinary mutual fund managers are increasingly asserting themselves on behalf of smaller investors.

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