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Gill Newton
Fund manager profile: Roberto Magnatantini of Decalia
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Geneva, Decalia is a fast-growing independent investment management company, managing private and institutional assets. As of December 2021, it has CHF4.9 bn ($5.1 bn) in assets under...Read more
James Beech
Asset managers must invest in IR as due diligence requests rocket at large caps
Asset managers with growth ambitions need to invest in their investor relations function, according to a new white paper exploring asset manager views on the due diligence process. Only 5 percent of managers...Read more
Garnet Roach
Rush for the exit: Bear-market rally prompts massive withdrawal from equity funds
Equity funds saw record sell-offs from UK investors in August, according to the latest data from Calastone’s Fund Flow Index (FFI). Edward Glyn, Calastone Across the month of August, UK investors pulled a...Read more

Case studies

Garnet Roach
The week in investor relations: Porsche IPO success, China lags rest of Asia for first time since 1990 and turmoil in UK markets
– Porsche enjoyed a ‘landmark’ debut in Frankfurt this week, noted CNBC , in what it said was one of the biggest public offerings in Europe ever. Shares of the iconic sports car...Read more
Mikel van Beek
IR crisis management: What happened at Shell when Russia invaded Ukraine?
The IR Magazine Awards nomination process encourages sharing of best practices, including those around crisis management. For Shell, the invasion of Ukraine constitutes such a crisis event, requiring swift and decisive action impacting...Read more
Garnet Roach
Peaks and troughs: Data shows votes against remuneration in Australia are ‘cyclical’
Looking back over the past 10 years of remuneration report voting outcomes across ASX 300 companies, Guerdon Associates’ research points to ‘cyclical’ waves when companies see more ‘no’ votes as shareholder expectations around...Read more
Garnet Roach
The week in investor relations: Fidelity, Schwab and Citadel Securities plan new crypto exchange, Biden focuses on foreign transactions and Germany takes control of Rosneft refineries
– The Wall Street Journal (paywall) reported that a ‘consortium of financial heavyweights’ including electronic trading giant Citadel Securities and brokerages Fidelity Investments and Charles Schwab announced plans to launch a new...Read more

Activism

Garnet Roach
‘Preparation can deter an activist’s involvement’: FTI Consulting talks activism prep
With news that the aviation and airlines industry has jumped to the top of the list as the industry most vulnerable to activism in Q2 2022 , Garnet Roach speaks to David...Read more
Garnet Roach
Activism in 2022: Aviation at risk, while support for ESG dips
The aviation and airlines industry has jumped to the top of the list as the industry most vulnerable to activism in Q2 2022, according to new research from FTI Consulting . Also this...Read more
Garnet Roach
‘Good IR tells it like it is’: Clearway Capital on due diligence, what it wants from IR and hiring former CEOs as advisers
Click here to read the first in the interview series, where Gianluca Ferrari, founding partner of Clearway Capital, talks TotalEnergies, going public with a campaign and targeting ESG issues – even those...Read more
Garnet Roach
Looking for the laggards: Clearway Capital on targeting firms that are already held to a high standard
Clearway Capital, described by Insightia as ‘Europe’s first dedicated ESG activist fund,’ was thrust into the spotlight this year, with a successful campaign pushing for French energy company TotalEnergies to divest its Russian...Read more

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