Corporate governance - Vigil

Any adjustments related to dual-class shares in the UK will need to pass through an FCA consultation before being brought in. The regulator has said it aims to consult on the proposals by the summer and bring in any changes before the end of 2021.

Former MetLife Chairman Steven Kandarian has taken the 12th seat on Exxon Mobil Corp’s board, official tallies of a shareholder vote released Monday showed, edging out the former Caterpillar chief named a director in a preliminary count.

Plans by the UK government to increase significantly the number of companies subject to stringent governance standards risk straining audit firms and their new beefed-up regulator to breaking point, accountants have warned.

Price spikes post-World War II and the 1970s show how inflation can dominate stock market returns

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan aiming to invest $40 billion in infrastructure within next five years

International Monetary Fund staff proposed a carbon-price floor to slow global warming over the next decade, saying that climate change presents huge risks to the functioning of the world’s economies.

Right now, less than a fifth of Canadians have received two shots

Mark Machin, who earlier this year resigned as the head of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board after defying the government’s international travel guidance, will join the board of Singapore investment firm Serendipity Capital.

How Public Letters Became Companies’ Favorite Form of Activism ?

Chief executives have signed countless statements in support of social causes over the last few years. Do they make a difference?

After small investment firms managed to topple the might of oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron at their recent AGMs, could these latest shareholder rebellions signal a change in the way environmental and social governance issues are tackled at the largest companies?

The plan of arrangement was approved by creditors of DavidsTea and its U.S. subsidiary on June 11 and calls for the distribution of the funds in mid-July as a full and final settlement of all claims against the company.

Boards can add value to their business’s digital transformation in five specific areas.

Inter Pipeline Ltd. has rejected a revised hostile takeover offer by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP that allows shareholders to receive their payment entirely in cash instead of a mix of cash and shares if they want.

An independent report published this month found the company colluded with government officials, while the company’s internal report in February cleared management of accusations it pressured shareholders to back board appointments.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to require public companies to disclose more information about how they respond to threats linked to climate change—and businesses are gearing up for a fight.

U.S. is likely the top destination for foreign investment, according to the U.N., as businesses meet bounce in demand for everything from steel to pet food

International Monetary Fund staff proposed a carbon-price floor to slow global warming over the next decade, saying that climate change presents huge risks to the functioning of the world’s economies.

With fiscal spending booming and households flush with cash, investors are betting that the Bank of Canada’s next tightening cycle, expected to begin in 2022, will result in interest rates climbing above the previous peak for the first time in decades.

'When rates go up, that affordability will disappear very, very quickly,' said Charles St-Arnaud

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The city’s prosperity is heavily dependent on patterns of work and travel that may be irreversibly altered.

The federal government is facing accusations of favouring Air Canada over consumers, as Ottawa lends the airline money to provide customer refunds while Washington seeks to punish the carrier for refusing to give U.S. passengers their money back more than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic began.