HedgeCo.net – ABN Amro Holding NV said last week it was in preliminary discussions with Barclays about creating a company worth more than $160 billion, this comes after pressure from activist hedgefund TCI asking to split up of the Dutch bank.<\/p>\n
Activist hedge funds Polygon and Centaurus are said to be supporting TCI’s demands and have also built a stake in ABN in order to pressure the bank into the sale.<\/p>\n
The Children’s Investment Fund Management (TCI), a $3.8 billion hedge fund, announced in a letter to<\/span> Dutch bank ABN AMRO last month that they believe the bank is undervalued andshould sell some of its assets, merge with another bank, or even sell off the whole business.<\/p>\n In 2005<\/span> TCI was part of a group of activist investors who criticized Deutsche B\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b6rse for its $2.5 billion bid for the London Stock<\/span> Exchange<\/span>, eventually<\/span> causing Werner Seifert, the chief executive to resign.<\/span> It turns out TCI, which owned 8% of Deutsche B\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00b6rse, actively recruited some powerful partners, including Atticus Capital, Merrill Lynch, and Fidelity Investments, in order to facilitate the move. Centaurus is one of the activist shareholders that was embroiled in a dispute with Dutch companies Stork NV and Royal Ahold NV last year, and Polygon Investment Partners is a British equity fund that was involved in the sale of Dutch publisher VNU.<\/p>\n TCI said, “We believe that this strategy would not only create significant shareholder value but also would best serve all the stakeholders who otherwise would suffer over the long term from the structurally declining competitive position of ABN AMRO,……In 2006 they again committed to cut costs and they have so far failed to deliver,” the hedge fund said.<\/p>\n Alex Akesson HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds! <\/p>\n Be sure to check out our sister sites. www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>, www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong> and www.hedgefundemployment.com.<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HedgeCo.net – ABN Amro Holding NV said last week it was in preliminary discussions with Barclays about creating a company worth more than $160 billion, this comes after pressure from activist hedgefund TCI asking to split up of the Dutch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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