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Tenacious headlines and publications of institutional investor discontent and activism continue to emerge within the world's financial news. Since the concentration and span of ownership by institutional investors is increasing worldwide their influence has grown considerable as well as their willingness to use it. Large potential benefits of their input into the monitoring process of management boards is also recognised and activism is encouraged by various committee reports, such as illustrated by the Combined Code (1998) and the NAPF report of 1995. However despite this, attitudes within large investment institutions can differ greatly with regards to activism and this only mirrors the intense academic debate and controversial evidence probing the merits of activism. Although activism possesses many valuable qualities and has in cases been beneficial to the company and shareholders, it also faces many problems that prevent its wider acceptance into practice. Whether activism adds......

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