We activist investors get accustomed to the articles, essays, manifestos, and screeds that blame us for all of society's ills. Lately, we catch flack for share buybacks that allegedly starve companies of capital spending and prompt layoffs. In a current blog post, we use some recent especially sloppy examples to make a few new points about these criticisms.

You can find other useful resources at the TAI website, including our research on "Effective Activism", our new resource guides on attorneys for activist investors and on activist investing data sources, our white paper with the basics on activist investing, and our new guides on exempt solicitation, consent solicitation, and special shareholder meetings.