Investors ‘cautiously optimistic’ about M&A outlook for 2024
‘Cautiously optimistic’ was the phrase bandied around the event hall at this year’s M&A Forum, co-hosted by IR Magazine &...
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Activism, M&A Archive
Shareholder activism: Utilities most vulnerable as regional bank risks wane
When Silicon Valley Bank failed in March, it triggered the ‘most challenging period in more than a decade’ for financial...
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Grafton Group chair sees support waver as investors seek more ESG progress
Building merchants business Grafton Group saw support for its chairman waver at its AGM as nearly a quarter of shareholders failed...
Balancing act: Dealing with anti-ESG sentiment
ESG reporting has grown from being a CSR tick-box exercise into a variety of measurable corporate benchmarks that investors have...
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Activism, ESG and universal proxy: How to make friends and influence shareholders
The London borough of Hounslow wants a greater say in your governance. In March, the west London pension fund became the first...
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Glencore launches shares buyback scheme amid plunging profits and activist attack
Glencore has issued a $1.2 bn share buyback program despite profits dropping by almost 50 percent in the first half of the year...
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The week in IR: US investors could face restrictions on Chinese stock ownership, firms with good ESG scores pollute as much as low-rated rivals and Robinhood shares fall on decline in users
- Reuters reported that a US congressional examination of Chinese stock holdings in BlackRock funds built on MSCI indexes could...
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Don’t close the door on ESG activists – they won’t go away
With more companies taking their sustainability reporting more seriously through TCFD disclosures and the upcoming International...
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Boohoo launches coup at Revolution Beauty
Retail group Boohoo has kicked off an activism campaign that seeks to gain control of the board at Revolution Beauty. Boohoo...
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Greenwashing: How to avoid it
One of the sessions at the 2023 Australasian Investor Relations Association (AIRA) annual conference looked at defining and...
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