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Power play

31 October 2008 By Mike Prest

The famously combative hedge fund has sold its 9.9% stake back to the Japanese electricity company for a $110m loss. Its attempt to export activism to Japan always looked ambitious. The ignominious retreat signals that the heady days of hedge fund aggression are over.

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