Corporate governance - Vigil

The boom in marijuana stocks has allowed insiders at the industry’s biggest companies to sell $250-million worth of stock in the past year – but if share prices hold, there’s still hundreds of millions more for them to make.

This post examines litigation challenging M&A deals valued over $100 million announced from 2008 through 2017, filed on behalf of shareholders of publicly traded target companies.

A Chief Learning Officer's role is to teach everyone to be business owners. 'It's the difference between hiring one sibling versus having a hiring policy'

Comcast Corp said it dropped its pursuit of a group of media assets owned by Twenty-First Century Fox Inc on Thursday and will focus on its offer for European pay-TV group Sky Plc

Previous studies show that, unlike small dispersed shareholders, large shareholders have strong incentives to monitor management and take actions that increase firm value (Shleifer and Vishny, 1986; Demsetz and Lehn, 1985). Despite extensive research on the monitoring role of large shareholders, the literature has paid little attention...

One of the key purposes of financial markets is to efficiently allocate capital to the real sector. Foreign investors have emerged as an important force in this process. As globalization has increased, financial markets have witnessed substantial inflows of capital from foreign investors.

A Nation of Small Shareholders: Marketing Wall Street after World War II (Studies in Industry and Society) by Janice M. Traflet explains how an ad campaign began to transform American finance...

ver since South Korea reopened itself to private equity in 2005, the market has demonstrated robust growth as measured by total investment and returns.

Institutional investors are often viewed as informed traders, and individuals attempting to trade in the same market as institutions are likened to “tourists playing poker with professionals in the smoky backroom of a Las Vegas casino.

In virtually every activism campaign, hedge fund activists don the mantle of the shareholders’ champion and accuse the target company’s board and management of subpar corporate governance.

Research reveals that average backing for shareholder proposals is on the rise, indicating that institutional investors are giving them more support.

Nova Scotia has unveiled what is believed to be the only retail model in the world that combines liquor beverage sales with recreational cannabis under one roof.

The CMi2i 2018 Annual Investor Corporate Governance Report surveyed institutional shareholders representing $8 trillion of Assets under Management (“AUM”). The objective of the report is to find out which Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) areas they believe will be key issues of focus in 2018 and beyond, and the impact of this on shareholder behaviour.

The Financial Reporting Council today [July 16, 2018] issued a revised corporate governance code and announced that a revised investor stewardship code will be issued before year-end. The code and related materials are available at www.frc.org.uk.

Clawback provisions authorize firms to recoup compensation from executives upon the occurrence of financial restatements or executive misbehavior.

Lloyds Banking Group plans to operate three subsidiaries in continental Europe after Britain leaves the EU, according to a source familiar with the matter, in a sign of how Brexit is fragmenting a banking industry long concentrated in London.