In Conversation with Prof. Julian Franks

Dr. Tom Gosling interviews Julian Franks, Professor of Finance at London Business School,  ECGI Fellow and co-author of the paper and study “The Benefits of Access: Evidence from Private Meetings with Portfolio Firms".

Find out Julian’s thoughts on these key issues:

- Engagement information and its contribution to excess funds

- The relationship between output from engagement meetings, changes in recommendations and resulting trading

- Mosaic theory

- Does engagement deliver alpha?

ECGI Conversations is a new interview series to discover insights, ideas and perspectives from the latest academic research, hosted by ECGI Executive Fellow, Dr. Tom Gosling.

Interviews will be shared with ECGI subscribers regularly and all interviews will be featured on the ECGI website.

The ECGI Conversation Series is part of the Responsible Capitalism initiative. 

We hope you enjoy the conversation. 

For more interviews in this series, visit this page.