Italy, minority shareholders’ weight on the rise

The weight of minority shareholders’ on Italian listed companies is constantly increasing and this is mostly due to foreign institutional investors.

“From 2016 to 2017 there has been a 3% growth and this makes us believe that minority shareholders have been increasing their portfolio and that they keep on investing in Italy, which is a positive signal overall,” commented Fabio Bianconi from Morrow Sodali who continued, “It is mainly due to foreign investors but smaller signs are coming from domestic asset managers, especially from the most structured ones such as Eurizon or Generali Investments which lately have developed proxy voting teams and engagement processes.”

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