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Jack Ma’s reappearance has given investors peace of mind after a lot of rumours, allowing them to pile into the stock which had been a laggard in the market. – Steven Leung , sales director	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The company has been a laggard on financial performance, climate risk management and lobbying disclosure for quite some time now, its peers in Europe, many of whom have independent board chairs, are outperforming Exxon on all these. – Thomas DiNapoli	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
In spite of the disappointment from the financials, which have been and continue to be a laggard ... there's still relative strength. – Michael James	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The activist investor agenda heightens the sense that, if you're a laggard for a long time on the public market, what do you do? the markets are less patient, boards are less patient, management teams are worried. – Brad Coleman	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think Kimi has got to show a higher level of commitment to the process, there are days when I think he's a bit of a laggard, but we'll see. I am going to talk to him today, we'll see what happens. – Sergio Marchionne	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Historically, Africa has been a laggard to accept new agricultural technologies. For GM crops, much of the problem lies in the perception, exaggerated fear and conflicting messages sent to policy making. – Getachew Belay	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
State Street is a notable laggard in adviser support, given State Street’s scale and first mover advantage as an ETF pioneer, they have abysmal adviser support. It's almost a laughing matter in the industry. – Larry Glazer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Jack Ma’s reappearance has given investors peace of mind after a lot of rumours, allowing them to pile into the stock which had been a laggard in the market.

– Steven Leung , sales director

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The company has been a laggard on financial performance, climate risk management and lobbying disclosure for quite some time now, its peers in Europe, many of whom have independent board chairs, are outperforming Exxon on all these.

– Thomas DiNapoli

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In spite of the disappointment from the financials, which have been and continue to be a laggard ... there's still relative strength.

– Michael James

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The activist investor agenda heightens the sense that, if you're a laggard for a long time on the public market, what do you do? the markets are less patient, boards are less patient, management teams are worried.

– Brad Coleman

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think Kimi has got to show a higher level of commitment to the process, there are days when I think he's a bit of a laggard, but we'll see. I am going to talk to him today, we'll see what happens.

– Sergio Marchionne

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Historically, Africa has been a laggard to accept new agricultural technologies. For GM crops, much of the problem lies in the perception, exaggerated fear and conflicting messages sent to policy making.

– Getachew Belay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

State Street is a notable laggard in adviser support, given State Street’s scale and first mover advantage as an ETF pioneer, they have abysmal adviser support. It's almost a laughing matter in the industry.

– Larry Glazer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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