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Daily Brief ESG: To Change a Company that Didn’t Change when Activist Investors Asked for Solutions to Their Issues and more

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  • To Change a Company that Didn’t Change when Activist Investors Asked for Solutions to Their Issues

To Change a Company that Didn’t Change when Activist Investors Asked for Solutions to Their Issues

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Now that percentage of foreign shareholders has reached 30%, other foreign shareholders are more likely to support activist investors’ proposals, and companies are paying more attention to communication with investors.
  • While cross-shareholdings held by banks etc. are declining, foreign shareholders and trust banks are on the rise. The holdings held by trust banks are managed by domestic institutional investors.
  • Whether their exercise of voting rights changes from the past will be the key to improving governance and moving forward with solutions to issues that have been postponed until now.

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