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Companies previously considered immune from activist campaigns have come under pressure, driving new public and private deal opportunities for private equity.
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Activist investors are the new generation of troublemakers for chief executives. As the FT’s Arash Massoudi explains, activist shareholders targeted the largest number of companies ever in 2018, and their tactics are changing. Historically they’ve focused on mid-sized US companies, but now they’re going after larger targets, and expanding their reach to Europe and Asia.
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More women on boards means "behavior and conduct in a company are balanced," one recruitment expert said.
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Corporate fashions come and go, and this season’s is industrial break-ups. In America and Europe, once-sprawling conglomerates are being carved up into focused companies that investors hope will fare better on their own. Those banking on quick returns have mostly been disappointed.
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We ask whether accounting and audit quality issues are determinants of shareholder activism. Activism refers to investor attempts to change firm policies and practices. Accounting and audit quality directly impact the information used by investors in investment decisions.
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Large gender pay disparities persist within the U.K. operations of Wall Street’s biggest banks.
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As independent governing boards continue to become more common across nations, so do instances of and possibilities for ethical lapses by these boards. Ensuring that boards behave in the best interests of their universities is important because boards are the fiduciary agents and the legal authority recognised by governments, courts and auditors.
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Xerox said on Thursday it will implement a structure in which the printer maker will become a wholly owned unit of a new holding company.
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The settlement deal eBay Inc. is nearing with shareholders Elliott Management Corp. and Starboard Value LP would give the activist investors one board seat each and could give them input on another seat in the future, according to people familiar with the matter.
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A fight is raging between chief executives and big investors over “dual” (or multi) class share structures, which give disproportionate voting rights to corporate founders and leaders at companies including Google, Facebook, Dropbox, and Snap.
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The board model employed by private-equity firms could better serve publicly traded companies — especially when it comes to defending against activist hedge fund campaigns, new research shows.
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Large, institutional investors are also getting in on the trend. Ashland Global had been battling the hedge fund Cruiser Capital Advisors, which was seeking four seats on the chemical-company’s board.
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Sans plus de détails, Groupe Mach a annoncé mardi la signature d’une convention non contraignante avec Québec. Le promoteur immobilier retire ainsi une condition liée au financement à sa proposition d’acquérir les actions de Transat A.T.
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As proxy season winds to a close, the Securities and Exchange Commission is signaling to public companies and Main Street investors that it will soon reform the process—described as “complex,” “inefficient” and “unreliable” by a key commissioner.
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Asian countries may not like China’s hectoring, but they have their qualms about America, too
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More than two-thirds of the shareholders for Facebook have voted to remove Mark Zuckerberg as the chairman of the company's board of directors this week, Yahoo Finance is reporting, increasing the pressure on the Facebook CEO to devolve some of his power over the direction of the company to an independent leader.
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Understanding what’s on the minds of shareholders is critical for today’s board members, as is knowing the rules of engagement, particularly with shareholder activists.
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Amazon employees are using their company-issued stock to pressure top executives into reducing contributions to climate change, in what may be an unprecedented effort to expand tech-worker unease into a new front of shareholder activism.
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Activist hedge funds are unable to effect meaningful change at corporations, according to a new research paper by a former academic.
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Their feud illustrates how Italy’s corporate scene has changed
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Activist settlement may mean goodbye for some of eBay’s valuables
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EBay is closing in on a settlement with activist hedge funds Starboard and Elliott Management that could be announced as soon as Friday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Activists are increasingly targeting businesses – from oil companies to gun manufacturers – on the stock market. But can this strategy lead to lasting change?
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When it comes to defending a company against an agitated investor, the devil you know may be better than the devil you don't.
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