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Institutional Investor Background
Ironfire Capital is an equity long biased and event-driven activist investment firm. The firm was founded in 2007 by current Managing Member, Eric Jackson. Prior to founding...
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Founders and Key Executives of Ironfire Capital: Eric Jackson; Jackson Leadership Systems, Inc
Entities related to Ironfire Capital: Ironfire Capital US Fund LP
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Ironfire Capital's Eric Jackson discusses China Opportunities | ||
| Date: April 13th, 2010 | ||
| Eric M. Jackson, Ph.D., is Founder and Managing Member of Ironfire Capital LLC, based in Naples, FL. Ironfire is an equity long-biased and corporate governance-focused... | ||
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Facebook's Dual Class Shares: Another Reason to Avoid This Company | ||
| Date: December 3rd, 2009 | ||
| Facebook announced last week before the Thanksgiving holiday that it has created a dual-class share structure. If you are an existing shareholder, your... | ||
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Red Robin Must Start Marketing Aggressively Again | ||
| Date: November 24th, 2009 | ||
| One of the more surprising sectors of 2009 has been casual dining restaurants. At the start of the year amid concerns of consumer deleveraging, some analysts... | ||
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Two Important Yet Overlooked Exec Comp Factors | ||
| Date: November 18th, 2009 | ||
| We read a lot about corporate governance and executive compensation these days, in the wake of last year's economic collapse. Many politicians are now... | ||
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Four Risks to Las Vegas Sands' Shareholders | ||
| Date: November 13th, 2009 | ||
| With its stock price up over 800% since its March lows, Las Vegas Sands (LVS) plans to raise up to $3.3 billion in a Hong Kong IPO listing of its Asian... | ||
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7 Steps Towards Real Free Market Capitalism | ||
| Date: November 12th, 2009 | ||
| Market commentators and the White House have been quick to blame last year’s economic meltdown on a free market run amok. And they’ve used that false... | ||
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What the SEC Should Learn from Raj Rajaratnam and the Galleon Group | ||
| Date: November 5th, 2009 | ||
| The government's case against Raj Rajaratnam, founder of hedge fund Galleon Group, on the charge of insider trading, alleges that the hedge fund manager's... | ||
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Icahn Should Give Up Running Other People's Money | ||
| Date: October 29th, 2009 | ||
| After a string of disastrous investments and his departure from Yahoo!'s (YHOO) board last Friday, it's time for Carl Icahn to hang it up running other... | ||
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The Truth in Lessig's Critique of Transparency | ||
| Date: October 23rd, 2009 | ||
| Lawrence Lessig's recent thought-provoking article in the New Republic, “Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government,” challenges the... | ||
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Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz's Continued Share Dumps Reflect Poorly on Leadership | ||
| Date: October 9th, 2009 | ||
| As predicted last month, when I first raised this issue, Yahoo! (YHOO) disclosed late Friday that Carol Bartz had sold another $1.3 million of Yahoo!... | ||
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Wynn's CEO Starts Cashing Out | ||
| Date: October 8th, 2009 | ||
| Steve Wynn and his chief operating officer are pushing back from the table. Since the end of July, Steve Wynn has sold $114 million worth of shares... | ||
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Yahoo Board Director Maggie Wilderotter Makes for the Door | ||
| Date: September 29th, 2009 | ||
| Maggie Wilderotter -- the most recent addition to Yahoo!'s (YHOO) board, joining in July 2007 (not including Carl Icahn and his band of merry men who... | ||
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Shareholders Must Put an End to Decoupled Pay-for-Performance | ||
| Date: September 28th, 2009 | ||
| Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve criticized Yahoo!’s (YHOO) Carol Bartz and HP’s (HPQ) Mark Hurd for excessive pay and perks, given their companies’... | ||
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HP's Executive Comp Is Troubling in a Year of Worker Pay Cuts | ||
| Date: September 25th, 2009 | ||
| Mark Hurd was brought in to take the helm at Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) in 2005. He's well regarded by Wall Street for turning the company from a bureaucratic... | ||
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Microsoft's Distasteful Plans to Save Us from the Housing Crisis | ||
| Date: September 22nd, 2009 | ||
| Kudos to Michelle Leder at Footnoted for spotting another distasteful perk paid for by hapless shareholders. This one was at Microsoft (MSFT) -- which... | ||
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Yahoo CEO Bartz Has a Lot of Explaining to Do | ||
| Date: September 18th, 2009 | ||
| Yahoo! (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz didn't get the "boatloads of cash" for her shareholders from Microsoft (MSFT) as she vowed in May, but she'll take home... | ||
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CEOs, Boards and Management: Welcome to Club Crony | ||
| Date: September 15th, 2009 | ||
| In response to my recent criticisms of Carol Bartz, her management team, and board at Yahoo! (YHOO), I've had some people ask me "How can you be against... | ||
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Microsoft, Alibaba.com Execs Join Yahoo in Noticeable Share Dumps | ||
| Date: September 15th, 2009 | ||
| In recently criticizing Yahoo!'s (YHOO) insiders for dumping $233mm in stock over the last 2 years, when they've only bought $103k in shares, I would... | ||
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Why Did Yahoo's Carol Bartz Use Shareholders' Money to Pay Taxes? | ||
| Date: September 14th, 2009 | ||
| Bobbie Johnson of the Guardian wrote a... | ||
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Five Conclusions on What Carol Bartz Had to Say About Selling Shares | ||
| Date: September 11th, 2009 | ||
| Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo! (YHOO), appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning talking about their search deal with Microsoft, that she would've taken... | ||
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Yahoo Insiders Should Be Shown the Door Out | ||
| Date: September 10th, 2009 | ||
| Does a leopard change its spots? Not at Yahoo! (YHOO); every director and officer there seems to have a congenital affliction that is forcing them to... | ||
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SEC's Long-Awaited Proxy Changes Make Much Sense Despite Protests | ||
| Date: September 4th, 2009 | ||
| After the meltdown of firms like Lehman Brothers, Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), Fannie Mae (FNM), Freddie Mac (FRE) and General Motors, and the... | ||
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Citi's Pandit Should Learn from AIG's Benmosche About Handling Government | ||
| Date: August 27th, 2009 | ||
| The federal government is running some of America's largest and formerly most influential companies, including Citigroup (C), AIG, Bank of America (BAC)... | ||
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Goldman's Board Is Getting Too Cozy | ||
| Date: August 13th, 2009 | ||
| Financial journalists have focused a lot on Goldman Sachs (GS) over the past few weeks. Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone kicked over a hornet's nest by calling... | ||
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Ironfire Capital's Plea to Dismantle Broadridge Monopoly | ||
| Date: August 7th, 2009 | ||
| Last month, I wrote to Chairman Mary Schapiro of the SEC about dismantling the monopoly Broadridge (BR) enjoys counting electronic proxy votes for all... | ||
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Yahoo! Directors Are to Blame for Lousy Search Deal | ||
| Date: August 6th, 2009 | ||
| Last week's news of a search partnership between Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO) means that Yahoo! is leaving the search business and handing the keys... | ||
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Microsoft Should Think Big, Not Bing | ||
| Date: August 5th, 2009 | ||
| Microsoft's (MSFT) disappointing quarterly results raise the question of why it hasn't used its ample cash reserves to buy faster-growing companies in... | ||
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Does Corporate Governance Impact Performance? | ||
| Date: July 24th, 2009 | ||
| After the collapse of Bear Stearns, Countrywide, Lehman Brothers, GM and AIG last year, and with Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) greatly diminished... | ||
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Ironfire Wants SEC to Break Up Broadridge's Proxy Monopoly | ||
| Date: July 17th, 2009 | ||
| Yesterday afternoon, Eric M. Jackson Ph.D., the Managing Member of activist hedge fund Ironfire Capital LLC, wrote a letter Mary L. Schapiro, the Chairman... | ||
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Who Watches over the New York Fed? | ||
| Date: July 10th, 2009 | ||
| We were all riveted last fall by the economic meltdown, which pulled down Lehman (now absorbed into Barclays (BCS)) and Merrill (now part of Bank of America... | ||
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Three of America's Best Boards | ||
| Date: July 8th, 2009 | ||
| It seemed an easy-enough question last week when someone asked me: What's the company in America with the best corporate governance? Yet, in trying to... | ||
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When Will We See Real Change in BofA's Board? | ||
| Date: July 2nd, 2009 | ||
| Last April, all eyes were on the Bank of America (BAC) shareholders meeting. Many expected CEO Ken Lewis to lose the title of chairman -- which he did.... | ||
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Shareholder Activists Reshaping Bank of America | ||
| Date: June 8th, 2009 | ||
| Continuous calls for a stronger board of directors with deeper financial experience at Bank of America (BAC) were answered on Friday when the bank announced... | ||
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4 Reasons Why Ackman Missed His Target | ||
| Date: June 4th, 2009 | ||
| By Eric Jackson, Founder and Managing Member of Ironfire Capital LLC
When Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management attended Target's (TGT)... | ||
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Ackman's Proxy Fight Is Right on Target | ||
| Date: May 28th, 2009 | ||
| The much-anticipated annual meeting of retailer Target (TGT) is Thursday and large shareholder Bill Ackman of Pershing Square has been in a long-running... | ||
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Tough Times Influence Activists to Adjust Agendas | ||
| Date: April 27th, 2009 | ||
| The Wall Street Journal’s Gregory Zuckerman reported this morning that many activist investors may need to rethink their agendas after struggling over... | ||
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Ironfire’s Jackson thinks Ken Lewis’ Time is Running Out | ||
| Date: April 27th, 2009 | ||
| Eric Jackson of activist investment firm Ironfire Capital predicted on his blog that Chairman and CEO Ken Lewis’ time at Bank of America is nearing... | ||
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