New York, Feb 24: The surge in Activism, Restructuring [Spin-offs] and M&A has brought enormous value. But equally with a degree of risk. With so many value plays ahead like the spinoffs of Baxter International spinning off its valuable Baxalta division, General Electric separating its Synchrony Financial segment or Fiat Chrysler demerging its Ferrari SpA luxury automotive business to investors, the question for most investors is now; how are they planning to cover and analyse the surging space to best process and evaluate the risk, uncovering the most valuable long-term companies before they breakup or the event happens? For readers that are unsure, a new study by leading international advisory firms, The Edge Consulting Group and Deloitte found 60% of Global Spinoffs in past two decades significantly outperformed every global benchmark index in the first year and second year of listing.
Their latest report and March 2015 calendar reveals the fundamental value behind companies to breakup next such as Bayer AG and its Material Science business; BHP Billiton; Blackstone Group; Hertz Global; Madison Square Garden; WR Grace & Co.; Yahoo! Inc. and its Alibaba spinoff; as well as consumer giants E.ON and Unilever NV in Europe to name a small selection of the 100 companies covered. For investors buying global corporate spinoffs…