When Alastair Ross Goobey tells you that every bear market has a silver lining, you could be forgiven for thinking him sanctimonious.
But the former chief executive of Hermes Pension Management has seen so many companies destroy shareholder value – whether the Mirror Group, Polly Peck or WorldCom – that he does not care much what people think of him.
“I think we needed some examples of bad governance to force people to change,” he says.
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