Ownership Changes at Games Workshop

Earlier today Larry Vela over on Bols took note of exactly who owns Games Workshop and its shares, and the changes that have occurred over the few months.  Its definitely newsworthy to know who is holding what. 



via Larry Vela over on Bols
There have been a LOT of ownership changes within Games Workshop in 2013.  Take a look at this:
As of March 31, 2013 the major shareholders look like this:

Shareholder	Number of shares	Percentage
The Nomad Investment Partnership LP	5,154,141	16.2%
Investec Asset Management Ltd	3,087,765	9.7%
Ruffer LLP	2,557,260	8.1%
Tom Kirby	2,131,394	6.7%
Phoenix Asset Management Partners Ltd.	1,865,218	5.9%
FIL Limited	1,753,900	5.5%

And here's what it looked like in early January 2013:

Shareholder	Number of shares	Percentage
The Nomad Investment Partnership LP	5,800,000	18.7%
Investec Asset Management Ltd	5,700,000	18.3%
Phoenix Asset Management Partners Ltd.	2,900,000	9.3%
Tom Kirby	2,131,394	6.7%
Ruffer LLP	800,000	2.5%
FIL Limited	800,000	2.5%

Some notes:
The largest three institutional investors (Nomad, Investec, Phoenix) begin selling off their GW portfolios within 1 week of the announcement of CEO Mark Wells leaving the company.

FIL and in particular Ruffer begin to purchase GW equity at a large rate. Ruffer bought a large set of shares as recently as March 21, 2013, bringing them above the 8% ownership mark.

Games Workshop equity has been fairly locked up and unchanged for a long time prior to 2013.