"I find it strange that BIHC is in the mist of selling off Baron, but at the same time Baron is making deals on the side"
Well I don't know if the Yankee deal is real or not, I could care less at this point, but one thing I do know regardless of that being fact or fiction is that even in the midst of an asset sale, the asset continues to operate as a company. So above anything else, I would expect Baron to continue making deals -that is what they do.
IMO
-Turbo