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Cevian Activist Investor Snags 1.3% UBS Stake!

Undercover players move in the game of finance! Avatar of activism, Cevian swoops in, claiming a cool 1.3% stake in the banking titan UBS.

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Dump the U.K. for the U.S. if you want to be worth more, major investor says

Pearson is the latest company under pressure to shift to the U.S. as London investors fight falling valuations for U.K.-listed companies.

Fortune

Pearson’s biggest shareholder says it should leave London and relist in US

Cevian Capital founder argues most of education publisher’s business is there and move would raise its value

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UAE telecoms group confirms £3.3bn raid on Vodafone

State-controlled e&, formerly known as Etisalat, is now UK mobile phone company’s biggest shareholder

The Guardian - UK

Shareholders sanction Ericsson board over Iraq corruption

Stockholm (AFP) - Shareholders in Swedish telecom giant Ericsson on Tuesday sanctioned the company's board and chief executive over its handling of a corruption scandal involving possible payments to the Islamic State group in Iraq.

AFP

Read What Activist Cevian Demanded From Ericsson Post ISIS Fiasco

Europe's leading activist investor Cevian AB pressed Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) to amend its articles to give its Class A shareholders the power to convert their shares into Class B shares, Bloomberg reports. Class A shareholders carry ten times Class B's voting power per share, notes Bloomberg. Cevian holds ~5% of Ericsson's Class…

Benzinga

City comment: How much ‘constructive’ criticism does Cevian really have for Vodafone?

Cevian’s targeting of Vodafone is a head-scratcher.

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Swedish activist investor targets Vodafone over weak performance

Cevian is seeking turnaround at telecoms firm whose share price has been falling for years

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