# Professor Yakov Amihud on activist investors

1 Faculty News July 27, 2015 ![ValueWalk logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/valuewalk.jpg?itok=4HYE4IGy)>

Excerpt from [ValueWalk](http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/07/for-retail-investors-investing-like-an-activist-2/) -- "'It is hard to say, based on the results, whether the activist investor is doing anything beneficial for the company or whether the activist investor is just a good stock picker,' says [Yakov Amihud](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/yakov-amihud), a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."

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