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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

• ValueAct Capital is launching a fund focused on promoting environmental and social goals for the companies it invests in, according to a letter obtained by CNBC.
• The ValueAct Spring Fund, as it will be known, is starting small with an initial target of raising $100 million.
• Earlier this week, ValueAct made its first investment in independent power producer AES, on whose board the fund’s leader Jeff Ubben will now sit.

David Faber of the Faber Report

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