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By: Andrew Lyddon

Andrew Lyddon is a Fund Manager at Schroders.

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  • The unusual case of the cheaply valued share buyback

    City Talk

    In theory, companies should only buy back their own shares when they're cheap, but this rarely happens. Andrew Lyddon, author on The Value Perspective blog, highlights a case where it has. The share buyback can be a beautiful thing – at least in theory. The idea is that a company buys back some of its [...]

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