Back when I was a local business reporter, avoiding Chamber of Commerce events was akin to trying to avoid the local loan shark: you could get away with it once, maybe twice. But sooner or later it would catch up with you. I thought about this recently after catching an interesting disclosure in the proxy [...]

So Carl Icahn just spoke at the World Business Forum and the insta-review, judging by the chatter in the ladies’ room, was that it was interesting, but contained “no content”. Still, these women said they’d be happy to have Icahn at their dinner party. Then again, this doesn’t seem like the type of crowd that [...]

Another day, another two conferences. Today, I’ll be skipping between the Institutional Investor Forum at the Waldorf and the World Business Forum at Radio City to hear two different takes on activist investing. (If you’re at either, ping me and say hello). This morning, former SEC Chair Richard Breeden spoke at the Waldorf about activist [...]