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Hi, everybody. I'm Nikolaj Tangen of the Norwegian Southern Wealth Fund. And today we are hosting an investor legend, Paul Singer, who founded Elliott Asset Management and probably the most important activist investor in the world. Paul, warm welcome. Thank you.

What is activist investing? Activist investing is taking a position largely in an equity security of a company and trying to engage with the company to improve outcomes, control or influence outcomes, better outcomes to unlock value. It could be management changes that are requested. It could be capital structure changes, finance strategies and tactics. Anything that will make the company  earn more money, be better positioned, more rationally deploy assets.

Why do you have to do this? Don't companies do this themselves? Well, as you know, the trend away from active investing, and by active investing, I don't necessarily mean activist. Active investing just means you open the mail from the company in which you invest, you try to figure it out, you t

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