For the second year, Institutional Investor asked publicly traded companies which asset managers are their best shareholders. The very top of the rankings didn’t change much but there were some new additions further down the list.
Asset managers have been formalizing and improving their engagement with the companies they own over the past 15 years, since the global financial crisis. Covid-19 tested how proficient managers had become by forcing everyone to engage each other remotely — which they did successfully. Now, videoconferencing has become a norm but corporate asset managers’ access teams say there is still a lot of value in portfolio managers and analysts meeting in-person with corporate leaders. Asset managers are also building tools and continually trying to think of ways to better those consequential lines of communication.
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