Trian Fund Management LP

Trian Fund Management LP, the activist hedge fund run by Nelson Peltz, has built a stake in Unilever PLC (NYSE: UL), the Financial Times reports, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter.  The $8.5 billion New York-based hedge fund has taken a position in shares of the British...

Asset management firm Trian Fund Management LP has taken up a $900 million position in Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) stock, it revealed in a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.  The hedge fund manages a multi-billion dollar portfolio and is known for...

Trian Fund Management LP took a $3.5 billion stake in Procter & Gamble Co (NYSE: PG) Tuesday night and pushed shares to a two-year peak above $91.5. It’s the largest position the activist investor has ever taken in a company, and it’s the second time in five years that P&G has...

Love them or hate them, activist investors have been making their presence known over the past five years, and it looks like 2015 will be no exception. This week, Trian Fund Management LP, led by activist investor Nelson Peltz, squared up for a standoff with E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co (NYSE:...

As a rule, when activist shareholders and large corporations lock horns, sparks fly. Such was the case with Trian Fund Management LP’s Nelson Peltz and PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP). According to Bloomberg, Peltz, who has been involved in several large food industry deals, said Wednesday that the world...