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The activist investor and the turnaround CEO have done astonishing work at CP, but with a new CEO arriving in 2017, can the magic continue? 
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Ontario court overturns the findings against another person, Man Kin (Francis) Cheng, involved in the case
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This book uses interviews with corporate board directors in Norway and analysis of US corporate securities filings to investigate quotas and disclosure in hiring practices.
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Edward Kamonjoh, appointed the inaugural Executive Director of the 50/50 Climate Project, appears up to the task of battling company-by-company.
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Since its inception, insider trading law has perplexed the legal community. Scholars have criticized the law for its lack of clarity and over-complexity. Such criticisms are understandable. Insider trading law is a dysfunctional hodge-podge of rules that make little intuitive sense.
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Going back as far as the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities and Exchange Commission has taken action to improve the readability and understandability of financial data.
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Data and research on corporate governance including guidelines for multinational enterprises (MNEs) and state-owned enterprises (SOEs)., The G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance provide recommendations on shareholder rights, executive remuneration, financial disclosure, the behaviour of institutional investors and how stock markets should function. Sound corporate governance is seen as an essential element for promoting capital-market based financing and unlocking investment, which are keys to boosting long-term economic growth.
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Donald Trump's U.S. presidential election win gave a huge boost to some prominent hedge fund portfolios, helping them post double-digit gains in November, several investors said.
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One of the key business groups in British corporate governance has urged the Government to stick to its guns on putting workers on company boards, despite the signal last week that it would row back from this plan.
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This quarterly economic forecast provides highlights of the Provincial Outlook report, which presents the short-term outlook for Canada’s provinces.
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Wells Fargo Bank -- Treasurer Denise L. Nappier and the Needmor Fund file to make independent board chair permanent, guarding against conflicts of interest.
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America’s first proxy access campaign ended this week. In early November, funds controlled by Mario Gabelli nominated a candidate for election to the board of directors of National Fuel Gas Company (“NFG”) using the company’s proxy access bylaw. NFG then challenged the Gabelli funds’ eligibility under the proxy access bylaw. This Monday, the Gabelli funds’ nominee withdrew and the funds announced that they would not pursue proxy access.
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The two most influential proxy advisory firms--Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis)--recently released their updated proxy voting guidelines for 2017.
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OSC proposal of implementing investment-advisory standards could force financial firms to cut back the range of services they offer
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Buy The Activist Director: Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation (Columbia Business School Publishing) by Ira M. Millstein (ISBN: 9780231181341) from Amazon's Book Store. Free UK delivery on eligible orders.
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When a sole individual acts as both CEO and chair of the board of a firm, the resulting CEO duality creates one of the most contentious issues in the field of strategic leadership (Dalton et al., 2007; Finkelstein et al., 2009).
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Washington D.C., Dec. 5, 2016 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that a whistleblower has been awarded approximately $3.5 million for coming forward with information that led to an SEC enforcement action.
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Odgers Berndtson est un leader mondial du recrutement de cadres, déterminé à offrir une approche intégrée en ce qui concerne la gestion des talents
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DP World, which operates ports from China to South America, will own 55 per cent of the investment platform, with Caisse controlling the rest
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Getting access to the prowess of legendary fixed income manager Bill Gross has been a constant pursuit of Canadian investors
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Washington D.C., Dec. 2, 2016 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Chief Economist and Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) Director Mark J. Flannery will leave the agency by the end of the month. He will return to his position as a finance professor at the University of Florida’s Graduate School of Business Administration.
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Stocks pushed higher while the euro recovered from early losses as investors largely brushed off Italian voters’ rejection of constitutional reform.
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In our article, Taxing Top CEO Incomes, we ask: what should the marginal income tax rate on high earning CEOs be? Recent research suggests that it should be high, perhaps as high as 70 per cent or 80 per cent. This research is based on a formula due to Diamond and Saez (2011) that relates the optimal marginal tax rate on top incomes to the elasticity of income with respect to taxes and a property of the right tail of the earnings distribution.
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