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Activist investor buys stake in Pearson

Europe's biggest activist investor has bought a 5.4% stake
June 15, 2020

Shares in Pearson (PSON) climbed up as much as 13  per cent on 12 June, following the news that active investment manager Cevian Capital had bought a 5.4 per cent stake in the publisher and said that it expected a new chief executive with a “clear track-record of shareholder-value creation” to realise the company’s “full potential”. 

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