News

October 2006

Share buybacks can be a good deal. Theo Vermaelen, AIF Program Director and instructor of AIF's Share Buybacks course, writes for Financial Times "Mastering Transactions" series.

From being a rather obscure, mainly US activity, share repurchases have become an important global transaction. Since 2000, the number of share repurchase announcements made by non-US companies is at least as large as it is in the US. The total global US dollar volume of buyback activity reached its peak in 2005, at approximately $400bn, although the number of repurchase announcements was much larger in the late 1990s.

Read the complete article here.


 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
   
       
   
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