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After stealthily buying up LPL stock, a 'wolf pack' of activist hedge funds has a leg hold

San Francisco-based SPO, FPR and Marcato are forbidden to coordinate their efforts per SEC rules but seem to be looking in the same direction

Author Sanders Wommack October 28, 2015 at 5:43 PM
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John Scully was on the Advent Software board and his firm, SPO, now controls 9.2% of LPL's outstanding shares.


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