Corporate governance - Vigil

Active investor oversight is a plus, not a minus.

It’s hard to imagine a more tumultuous year than 2020. Corporate boards worked closely with their management teams on matters ranging from crisis response and employee safety to social justice and virtual workforce transitions. Still in the drudges of a global pandemic, 2021 is likely to hold many challenges of its own.

Canadian investors want consistent and comparable company reporting of climate-related risks and opportunities to inform their allocation of investment capital. Yet disclosure continues to be uneven across the country, creating the risk of capital moving to other jurisdictions with more transparent reporting.

A wave of big deals in recent weeks has financial players predicting 2021 could be the most active year in recent memory for Canadian corporate mergers and acquisitions as the economy starts to shake off the brutal effects of COVID-19.

The Alphabet boss has huge ambitions for innovation but spends much of his time dealing with regulators.

Unusual nature of this recession suggests it could lead to more rapid recovery than others

A Texas bankruptcy judge approved McKinsey & Co.’s settlement with Justice Department watchdogs over how the firm discloses potential conflicts of interest, effectively ending a legal battle on transparency in the U.S. bankruptcy system.

Boards and the executives and advisors they hire need to be proficient in Purpose Governance, which will put their organizations on a viable path that creates value for the company and the society on which it depends.

There is now at least one woman sitting on every S&P 500 company board, and women made up 47% of the incoming class of new directors, the highest percentage to date.

You might assume that following best practices correlates with superior performance and shareholder loyalty. But that does not appear to be the case

Britain went from enthusiastic commitment to the EU to an acrimonious departure on unfavourable terms

Activist investors have ramped up demands for operational fixes, refreshed boards and sales of lackluster businesses in the last few months of 2020, a rush that will continue into the new year, bankers, investors and others said.

Magna said Tuesday the venture will manufacture e-motors, inverters and on board chargers and, for certain automakers, related e-drive systems.

The Canadian economy grew in both October and November, with the October gain slightly above expectations mostly on strength in the finance and insurance sector, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday.

Rogers broke from the pack in how it reported CEWS payments, so was overlooked in FP investigation

“During the darkest days of the Model 3 program, I reached out to Tim Cook to discuss the possibility of Apple acquiring Tesla (for 1/10 of our current value),” Mr. Musk said Tuesday. But the Apple CEO, he said, “refused to take the meeting.”

Pressure to speed up glacial progress on adding more women and minorities to corporate boards has brought a rush of new business for specialist headhunters.

CEO Jeff Bezos still runs the e-commerce giant with the drive of a startup trying to survive, and that strand of its corporate DNA is becoming a liability

The Securities and Exchange Commission will allow companies to raise capital through direct listings, opening the door to a new alternative to the traditional initial public offering.

Companies plan to encourage, incentivize vaccination; ‘Here is the carrot, and here is the stick’

China had been counting on its biggest chipmaker to help the country eventually reduce its reliance on the likes of Intel (INTC) and Samsung (SSNLF). The United States just put those ambitions in jeopardy.