Kenneth B. Squire
Founder and President/Portfolio Manager
Ken Squire is the Founder and President of 13D Monitor, the Founder, Chief Investment Strategist and Portfolio Manager of the 13D Activist Fund, and most recently created the AESG™ investment category, an activist investment style focused on improving ESG practices of portfolio companies.
13D Monitor is the premier subscription research service specializing in the analysis of activist investor’s 13D filings and following the broader shareholder activist community. Squire has focused exclusively on following shareholder activism and corporate governance since 2006 and is a leading commentator in the industry. He is an on-air CNBC Contributor and is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other financial publications. His weekly column The Activist Spotlight was featured in Barron’s from 2007 to 2020 and on CNBC.com since 2020.
In 2010, Squire created the annual Active-Passive Investor Summit, a forum that brings together the entire activist investor and corporate governance community and provides top activist investors a platform to present their best investment ideas.
In 2012, Squire founded the 13D Activist Fund, an event-driven mutual fund that focuses on investing in opportunities identified in 13D filings. Squire is the founder, chief investment strategist and portfolio manager. The Fund was the first of its kind, providing both individual and institutional investors diversified, liquid and low-cost access to the most compelling activist investments in this asset class. Following the success of the 13D Activist Fund, Squire launched a hedge fund for larger institutional investors. This private investment vehicle invests alongside, and with the same strategy, as the 13D Activist mutual fund.
In 2021, Squire created the AESG™ investment category, an activist investment style focused on improving ESG practices at companies.
Prior to starting 13D Monitor, Squire was a private equity investor as a principal of LSC Investors and Crown Capital Group, where he worked on analyzing, making and managing various investments in public and private companies. Prior to that, he was an associate in the Corporate and Securities Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in their New York office. Squire holds a B.S. with a concentration in finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a J.D. from New York University’s School of Law where he was an editor of the Law Review.