California money manager Altheia Research & Management, run by Peter Eicher, filed with the SEC now that it has amassed at 10.8 percent stake in Barnes & Noble. Altheia says it has “no plans or proposals” other than investment purposes, but qualifies that by noting the firm “reserves the right to act in concert with any other shareholders of the Issuer, or other persons, for a common purpose should it determine to do so, and/or to recommend courses of action to management and the shareholders of the Issuer.” Nearly all of their block of stock was acquired beginning on November […]