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March 27, 2020 10:08 AM
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and its possible impacts on corporations highlight the importance of the board of directors’ oversight function in times of crisis. Faced with a crisis, a board must consider both the near-term and long-term risks, and in some cases the opportunities, that the crisis presents to the company.
The stock market drop means opportunities for corporate raiders.
La Ville de Montréal fait un pas de plus vers l’implantation de la collecte de déchets organiques sur l’ensemble de son territoire.
Hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. has obtained a large stake in Twitter and is advocating for changes, including possibly replacing CEO Jack Dorsey, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN Business.
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February 21, 2020 10:16 AM
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Corporate CEOs and boards are under increasing pressure from investors and others to do better by the planet and everyone living on it.
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February 7, 2020 10:16 AM
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The prognosis for Canada’s foremost investor advocacy group does not look good – can self-regulators step in to fill the void?
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February 6, 2020 10:16 AM
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Heroux-Devtek Inc. reported a profit of $8.7-million in its latest quarter, up from $7.4-million in the same quarter a year earlier, and raised its full-year sales guidance.
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February 6, 2020 10:16 AM
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The Canadian dollar will climb over the coming year, recouping much of its recent decline, as the economic threat from a coronavirus outbreak in China likely fades, and some analysts don’t expect the Bank of Canada to cut interest rates in 2020, a Reuters poll of analysts showed.
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February 4, 2020 10:12 AM
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An employee-led group says an SEC proposal would discriminate against smaller investors and employees awarded company stock.
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January 27, 2020 10:23 AM
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The hedge fund industry has no shortage of aggressive, in-your-face players, but few are as tough as Chris Hohn. The British billionaire takes the typical playbook to new levels-scuttling deals, pushing to remove bosses, and battering companies with litigation and threats.
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December 20, 2019 10:23 AM
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Europe ended the year better than it started
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December 19, 2019 10:15 AM
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“This looks more like a good old-fashioned face plant and by the look of things right now, FDX may earn less than $10 this year,” writes brokerage Gordon Haskett.
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November 25, 2019 10:25 AM
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Active fund managers today are like deer caught in the headlights of oncoming traffic.
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This is the fifth consecutive year that we have conducted a global institutional investor survey and reported the findings and our observations. In this publication we focus on the ESG risks and opportunities that investors factor into their investment decisions with our report exploring these themes in greater detail.
It’s necessary for today’s boards to properly oversee the current issues facing their organization, but they need to be looking forward to the next ten years or so and ensure that they will be just as well equipped at that time. In addition to being skilled and diversified, today’s boards need to be adaptable, creative, and open-minded.
The lines between shareholder activist strategies and traditional private equity strategies are starting to become blurred.
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February 24, 2020 10:37 AM
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Over the last 20 years, the number of female CEOs leading S&P 500 firms has increased fivefold. But it's a deceiving figure: among large publicly traded firms, women still only make up six percent of all CEOs.
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February 14, 2020 10:26 AM
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The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald this week revealed five of the largest industry funds in Australia's $2.9 trillion super sector - Unisuper, HESTA, AustralianSuper, CBUS and Hostplus - have billions of dollars invested in fossil fuel stocks, despite championing their green credentials.
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February 7, 2020 10:15 AM
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A “corporate culture war” over how much say investors should have in the companies they own has Amazon.com Inc. workers siding with activist hedge funds against corporate lobbyists seeking to curb shareholder advocacy.
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February 6, 2020 10:16 AM
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SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. says the nomination of three new members to its board of directors is part of a renewal process for the company.
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February 6, 2020 10:14 AM
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Investor William Ackman told clients on Wednesday that Pershing Square Capital Management exited its Starbucks Corp position as future growth looks less robust but will stick with last year’s biggest winner, Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc..
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January 28, 2020 10:13 AM
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Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s largest bank, participated last month in the massive — $26 billion (U.S.) IPO — of Aramco, the Saudi Arabian oil giant predicted to produce the oil and gas equivalent of 27 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, more than any other company on earth.
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January 6, 2020 9:55 AM
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Going into the new decade, there is a need to review the role that the Board of Directors plays in the modern corporation as things move faster and as scale increases.Going into the new decade, there is a need to review the role that the Board of Directors plays in the modern corporation as things move faster and as scale increases.
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December 20, 2019 10:19 AM
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A report by Alvarez & Marsal predicts a backlash against UK and European companies
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December 5, 2019 2:40 PM
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Microsoft’s shareholders have defeated two proposals by activist investors calling for the company to add a rank-and-file employee on its board of directors and report on gender disparities in company salaries.
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