The Big Interview: AVI CEO Joe Bauernfreund on activism without being a bully

‘Polite and reserved activists’

Eve Maddock-Jones
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Activism has been one of the major themes within the UK investment trust space over the past 12 months, but for Asset Value Investors (AVI), it has been a 40-year campaign.

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