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rmeertens · 2023-01-24 · Original thread
You might think "who is Christopher Hohn, and what is the TCI Fund", but this guy has a history of making money in weird ways. Just before the banking chrisis, in 2007, he managed to force one of the biggest banks of the the Netherlands (ABN Amro) to either be taken over or to be split up. He has a history of suing the boards of companies if he thinks they can be worth more to investors in some way or another.

You can read more about what happened with the ABN Amro bank back in the days in the super thick book "The Pray" (https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Prey-Wrong-Banking-Industry/d...). I read it last summer and it is surprisingly interesting for a book which follows the board of a big bank...

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