Goldman Sees ANZ Investors Waking Up to Activism

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G’day, it’s Harry Brumpton and Sarah Gill in Sydney. We and our colleagues recently hosted Goldman Sachs’s ANZ investment banking bosses and chatted about shareholder activism. Elsewhere, Swisscom is in advanced talks to buy Vodafone’s Italian business, and an Elliott win spurs a co-founder’s lawsuit.

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Australian investors are getting more engaged in activism, causing some boardrooms to worry they’ll become targets of shareholder interventions traditionally more common elsewhere, according to the two co-heads of investment banking for Goldman Sachs in Australia and New Zealand.