13D Monitor is the premier global research service specializing in shareholder activism. Founded by Ken Squire in 2006, 13D Monitor has provided the most comprehensive qualitative research, offering incomparable actionable intelligence, analysis and commentary.
Our team’s deep experience and expertise allow us to deliver unparalleled insights and analysis to our subscribers, which include corporations, institutional investors, allocators, activist investors and top activist defense law firms, investment banks and proxy firms.
We review, monitor, analyze and assess every activist engagement both in the United States and internationally, and promptly distribute detailed reports on all material situations to our clients, providing information that drives investment decisions and perspectives. Our goal is to provide the highest quality independent, insightful and timely information to our customers, allowing them to better understand activist engagements and the context surrounding them and to elevate responsible shareholder activism worldwide.
Key benefits that our US and international subscribers receive include:
- Access to our comprehensive shareholder activism database. Key functions include:
- The ability to search any company and view their full activist history and our corresponding reports
- Comprehensive profiles for all activist investors
- A repository of all letters, agreements, presentations and white papers pertaining to activist engagements
- Company Vulnerability Ratings showing every public company’s likelihood of being targeted by an activist shareholder (US only)
- An M&A activism portal featuring an LBO calculation tool and essential financial information, this portal details all live campaigns with a strategic catalyst and is particularly useful for private equity firms
- A searchable and sortable standstill agreement database and calendar showing when they expire
- A voting database which includes the proxy voting records of all institutional investors
- A searchable activist ‘say-on-pay’ database showing how top activists voted with respect to say-on-page at portfolio companies
- Advisor resources, including advisor profiles, league tables and advisors on current campaigns
- Emailed reports on all activist situations and material engagements, including our proprietary commentary
- A ‘Daily Recap’ summary of all news, articles and material filings related to shareholder activism
- Our monthly newsletter -The Activist Report - featuring articles and analysis; a '10 Question’ interview with a thought leader, and an advisor directory.
- Quarterly editions of The Activist Report newsletter specifically produced with information for corporations and allocators
- Access to our premier conference, The Active-Passive Investor Summit: This event launched in 2010 and is widely considered the most important and influential forum for the shareholder activism and corporate governance community. It provides a platform for top activist investors to present their best investment ideas and for leading corporate governance experts to share their expertise and insights. This event is covered live on site by CNBC and past speakers have included Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman, Nelson Peltz, Jeff Smith, Lars Forberg, Dan Loeb, Jeff Ubben, Mason Morfitt, Barry Rosenstein and Seth Fischer among many others.
- Access to us and our network.