Corporate governance - Vigil

Washington D.C., Oct. 28, 2015 — 

The Securities and Exchange Commission today barred two brokers at a now-defunct Connecticut brokerage for giving customer order information to certain favored customers, helping those customers get better prices while generating extra commissions for their firm. The SEC also ordered the brokers to pay financial penalties.    

Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor known for picking fights with corporate boards, disclosed an investment in American International Group Inc. and said it should split into three companies, one offering property-casualty coverage, another selling life insurance and a third backing mortgages. The stock rallied in New York trading.

Moody’s, the credit rating and business analysts, has said the emissions crisis at Volkswagen highlights serious corporate governance problems.

TOKYO -- Two American proxy advisory firms are toughening benchmark guidelines on outside directors in Japan, aiming to push for more qualified appoin

Now that China's Alibaba has been trading in New York for a year, here are five things investors have learned about the e-commerce giant

Legal changes have made it easier for the Ontario Securities Commission, but it remains ‘very difficult’ to recover money that’s been spent or hidden

In order to retain their access to large scale capital at low cost, there is no question that companies need to actively manage their compliance with the ever-increasing regulatory requirements in ...

Ontario Securities Commission vice-chair Monica Kowal will become acting chair of the provincial regulator in November following the departure of Howard Wetston after a five-year term

Who is informed on the stock market? There are plenty of reasons to believe that institutional investors possess value-relevant information. Unlike retail investors, institutions often directly communicate with publicly traded firms as well as brokerage firms through their investment banking, lending, and asset management divisions. Most mutual funds and hedge funds employ buy-side analysts and enjoy better relationships with sell-side analysts. Their economies of scale allow institutions to monitor many sources of information. Last but not least, institutions employ professionals and technologies with superior information processing skills. Yet, the academic literature has struggled to identify the information channel in institutional trading. There is some evidence that institutional investors are informed, but studies examining institutional order flow around specific events provide mixed evidence.

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Martin Pelletier: Slow and steady usually wins the race if given enough time and that often means going against the crowd and investing in boring, less volatile companies

JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) said on Monday its board will consider a bylaw amendment to make it easier for small groups of investors to run candidates for the New York bank's board of directors.