The less obvious, but no less material, impact the U.S. market has on proxy fights in Canada relates to the growth of low cost active and passive investment vehicles. U.S. based mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other passive products have increasingly become significant owners o
The FT's chief business commentator John Gapper predicts that next year companies will be much more aggressive when they face hostile takeover bids or attempts by activist investors to destabilise them.
The Drucker Forum 2017 in Vienna last month gave considerable attention to the role of a corporate strategy in a rapidly changing world. In particular, Steve Blank explained how CEOs have to grapple with five new forces, that led, among other things, to Jeff Immelt losing his job as CEO of General Electric (GE),…
The National Association of Corporate Directors has released the results of its 2017-2018 Public Company Governance Survey of over a thousand directors and executives. Th
Many corporate boards know that a clear focus on sustainability and other “environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) issues can drive integrated thinking and
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In this paper, we evaluate the effect of managerial entrenchment on corporate information production using the voting results of shareholder-initiated proposals
An interview and Q&A with Warren Buffett. In this interview Warrens discuses his views on the economy and how the economy will do in the future. Warren als
Long-term activist investors can bring much-needed change to a company's strategy, health, and, in some cases, management team. But activist investors focused on the short-term are giving the role a bad name.
In the aforementioned London Stock Exchange campaign, the Governor of the Bank of England was even asked to intervene. Quite understandably, he told both sides to get a hold of themselves and work something out. They haven’t yet,
After years of fits and starts, mutual-fund giants including BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc. and State Street Corp. are embracing shareholder proposals to add more women and minorities as directors.
Canada's largest coalition of institutional investors wants shareholders to have the right to nominate directors for board elections, saying it has obtained an expert legal opinion that its proposed model for proxy access is allowed under business law statutes.
The old guard, comprising many of the top tier activists, are grabbing headlines with high-profile launches at large caps on what seems like a weekly basis.
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