Activist Investor Targets LendingClub

In a week where LendingClub posted their first quarter earnings sending their stock up by more than 25% an activist investor has sent a letter to the company. Quarz Capital Management has several gripes with LendingClub: describing their 2018 targets as unconvincing and unambitious, management pay as too high and argued that excess cash should be returned to the shareholders. Source.

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