"Activist investing is controversial: critics believe that it can force companies to lay off workers and curtail investment in new products in favor of schemes that boost short-term profits. The head of Elliott Management has developed a uniquely adversarial, and immensely profitable, way of doing business. “Aggressive, tenacious and litigious to a fault," intent on doing whatever it takes to win, Singer deploys his riches in GOP politics, where he is a top donor and a powerful influence on the Party & its President; In the press, Singer and similar investors have been compared to vultures, wolves, and hyenas. Bloomberg has called Singer “aggressive, tenacious and litigious to a fault,” anointing him “The World’s Most Feared Investor.”
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