Bloodthirsty activist investors are set to take down a record number of CEOs this year, Barclays says. The record is only a year old

Bloodthirsty activist investors are on track to topple more CEOs in 2025 than ever before, according to Barclays’ latest quarterly review of shareholder activism. In a sign of the heightened pressures that CEOs face, the record was only set last year, the bank notes. It adds to the emerging picture of what executive placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an authority on both layoffs and CEO hiring trends, called “the rise of the CEO gig economy” earlier this year. Barclays data show that in 2024, a r ...