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January 11, 2016 9:41 AM
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc has won the backing for its takeover of BG Group Plcfrom a body that advises many of its largest shareholders.
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January 11, 2016 9:40 AM
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More diverse boards make better—and more profitable—decisions. But it takes real work to seek out the right candidates for your field.
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January 11, 2016 9:40 AM
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Activist investor Starboard Value LP is again urging Macy’s Inc. to find ways to unlock the value of its vast real-estate holdings, including its famous Herald Square store in New York.
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January 8, 2016 9:10 AM
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The tactics used by activist hedge funds to target companies continue to command the attention of corporate executives and board members
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January 8, 2016 9:08 AM
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Platform-based talent markets help put the emphasis in human-capital management back where it belongs—on humans. A McKinsey Quarterly article.
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January 8, 2016 9:08 AM
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The tactics used by activist hedge funds to target companies continue to command the attention of corporate executives and board members. This post discusses recent cases highlighting activist efforts to replace directors at target companies. It also examines the use of controversial special compensation arrangements sometimes referred to as “golden leashes,” the arguments for and against such payments, their prevalence, and the parallel evolution of advance notification bylaws (ANBs) to require disclosure of third party payments to directors.
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January 8, 2016 9:07 AM
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Fibrenoire runs 4,500 kilometres of fibre-optic cable and serves about 1,000 clients in Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa and Toronto.
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January 8, 2016 9:07 AM
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VANCOUVER - The board that regulates natural-gas exploration and production in Canada has approved its first 40-year export licence to a joint-venture comp
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January 7, 2016 9:32 AM
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Join us for a preview of shareholder proposals expected for the 2016 U.S. annual meeting season. A panel of ISS experts will breakdown filings to cover governance-, ESG-, and compensation-related resolutions in 2016, highlighting investor efforts to “push the needle” on a host of issues ranging from climate change to independent board leadership to adopting rigorous clawback policies.
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January 7, 2016 9:32 AM
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The quasi collapse of the global financial system during the crisis of 2007-2009 has triggered an extensive debate about the role of large complex banks.
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January 7, 2016 9:32 AM
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On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. The Act, arguably the most significant piece of federal cyber-related legislation enacted to date, establishes a mechanism for cybersecurity information sharing among private‑sector and federal government entities...
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January 7, 2016 9:31 AM
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In the paper, Corporate Governance and Blockchains, which was recently made publicly available on SSRN, I explore the corporate governance implications of blockchain database technology. Blockchains have captured the attention of the financial world in 2015, and they offer a new way of creating, exchanging, and tracking the ownership of financial assets on a peer-to-peer basis. Major stock exchanges are exploring the use of blockchains to register equity issued by corporations. Blockchains can also hold debt securities and financial derivatives, which can be executed autonomously as “smart contracts.” These innovations have the potential to change corporate governance as much as any event since the 1933 and 1934 securities acts in the United States.
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January 7, 2016 9:31 AM
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Following a contentious exchange with a large shareholder in 2015, Children’s Place is changing a key provision of its bylaws that allows investors to nominate directors and allowing a vote on several other measures shareholders identified as concerns.
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January 11, 2016 9:40 AM
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When the country’s biggest banks start telling employees the value of their annual bonuses as early as next week, many traders will suffer sharp cuts.
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January 11, 2016 9:40 AM
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January 11, 2016 9:30 AM
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Elected officials in Montreal have spent $200,000 on travel expenses since November 2013, for a total of 85 trips, but not all figures are reported.
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January 8, 2016 9:08 AM
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An emerging governance challenge is the need to address the tension between the pursuit of legitimate corporate strategic goals, and the concerns of internal “gatekeepers” who perceive themselves at increasing personal legal risk for corporate wrongdoing. This challenge is a direct byproduct of new enforcement initiatives of the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other recent developments with respect to corporate officials.
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January 8, 2016 9:08 AM
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My recent paper explains why, from a bank supervisory perspective, the Federal Reserve’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) program is arguably the single most significant and innovative post-crisis regulatory reform.
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January 8, 2016 9:08 AM
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The old principles aren't working. Confidence in capitalism is collapsing. The gap between the 1 % and the rest has been growing for forty years. And, corporations are dying
sooner. A corporation is six times more likely to die in 2016 than in
1976.
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Institut sur la gouvernance (IGOPP)
January 8, 2016 9:07 AM
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When the country’s biggest banks start telling employees the value of their annual bonuses as early as next week, many traders will suffer sharp cuts.
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January 7, 2016 9:34 AM
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Starboard Value expressed its frustration with the performance of Yahoo and demanded changes in the management, board composition, strategy & execution
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January 7, 2016 9:32 AM
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Join ISS Special Counsel Patrick McGurn and John Roe, Managing Director at ISS Corporate Solutions, for analysis and commentary on what’s ahead for the 2016 U.S. annual meeting season. The seasoned governance duo will provide listeners with both investor and corporate perspectives on a wide range of emerging issues, including:
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January 7, 2016 9:32 AM
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Activist investor Starboard Value, in a letter to Yahoo, threatened a proxy fight, called for a change in management and stepped up pressure for a spinoff or sale of the company’s core Internet business.
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January 7, 2016 9:32 AM
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Washington D.C., Jan. 6, 2016 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that J.P. Morgan’s brokerage business agreed to pay $4 million to settle charges that it falsely stated on its private banking website and in marketing materials that advisors are compensated “based on our clients’ performance; no one is paid on commission.”
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January 7, 2016 9:31 AM
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U.S. public companies face a host of challenges as they enter 2016. Here is our annual list of hot topics for the boardroom in the coming year:
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