Mr. Abner Kurtin

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  Published on: 9/15/2009    Last Visited: 9/15/2009  

  Mr. Abner Kurtin serves as Portfolio Manager of K Capital. Mr. Kurtin co-founded K Capital Partners, LLC in April 1999. K Capital is an investment partnership focusing on European restructuring, and arbitrage opportunities. Before launching K Capital, Mr. Kurtin had most recently served as Managing Director at The Baupost Group after tenures at AEA Investors and Lehman Brothers Inc. Mr. Kurtin graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. from Tufts University and also holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Kurtin lives on Beacon Hill with his wife and three children. He currently serves as a member of the Massachusetts General Hospital President's Council and on the Executive Advisory Committee of MassGeneral Hospital for Children.

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  Published on: 1/17/2008    Last Visited: 1/17/2008  

  "2008 will be a critical year for Sun-Times, during which it will implement a restructuring of its operations and balance sheet and also, the market expects, begin the evaluation of a sale of the company," said K Capital Portfolio Manager Abner Kurtin in his letter.
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  In a separate letter, Kurtin asked Sun-Times' special monitor, Richard C. Breeden, to support Hollinger's written consent, if the consent is granted.
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  Kurtin noted that the Special Monitor is responsible for addressing issues that impact Sun-Times' Class A and Class B shareholders.

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  Published on: 6/18/2008    Last Visited: 6/18/2008  

  Aziz was then elected along with the other incumbent directors, and investors Robert Poile and Abner Kurtin were added to the board, which was thus shrunk to eight members from 11.
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  Poile is portfolio strategist at Polar Securities Inc., which owns 8.8 million shares or 10.7 percent of the company's stock, while Kurtin is founder and portfolio manager of Boston-based K Capital Partners, which owns 8.6 million shares or 10.5 percent.

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  Published on: 12/13/2007    Last Visited: 12/14/2007  

  Abner Kurtin, K Capital's chief investment officer, maintains that the current board's performance is worse than it was under Black.

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  Published on: 2/4/2008    Last Visited: 2/5/2008  

  "Sun-Times owns very attractive community newspapers but is too small to operate as an independent public company," said Chief Investment Officer Abner Kurtin in an e-mail.

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  Published on: 11/10/2008    Last Visited: 11/11/2008  

  In a letter Monday, K Capital Management portfolio manager Abner Kurtin said the newspaper group's board and chief executive have failed to curtail cash loss.
  
  "The current regime of Sun-Times Media Group (nyse: SVN - news - people ) has overseen a period of substantial loss of value on both an absolute and industry relative basis," he wrote.

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  Published on: 12/25/2008    Last Visited: 12/25/2008  

  Calling it an "easy decision" in light of the poor performance of the current board, K Capital Management, which owns 8.6 million Sun-Times shares, said it signed the consent solicitation from fellow shareholder Davidson Kempner in order to "give the company new, more experienced leadership," according to a letter from K Capital portfolio manager Abner Kurtin to Sun-Times board member Raymond Seitz.
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  "K Capital is shocked that the board would fight this proposal given the disastrous operating results and shareholder losses over the last few years due to the board's inaction," Mr. Kurtin said in the letter, addressed to Mr. Seitz, who plans to leave the board at the end of the year.

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  Published on: 2/5/2008    Last Visited: 2/5/2008  

  "Sun Times has a valuable collection of community newspapers but should not be an independent public company," K Capital Partner Abner Kurtin said.

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  Published on: 6/25/2008    Last Visited: 6/25/2008  

  The Chicago-based media company, publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, plans to reinstate one Hollinger-appointed director, Peter Dey, and add two directors from the ranks of its next-biggest shareholders, Polar Securities Inc. portfolio strategist Robert Poile and K Capital Partners founder Abner Kurtin, it said at an annual stockholder meeting Tuesday. >

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  Last Visited: 12/20/2008  

  Calling it an "easy decision" in light of the poor performance of the current board, K Capital Management, which owns 8.6 million Sun-Times shares, said it signed the consent solicitation from fellow shareholder Davidson Kempner in order to "give the company new, more experienced leadership," according to a letter from K Capital portfolio manager Abner Kurtin to Sun-Times board member Raymond Seitz.

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