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October 19, 2015 9:47 AM
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In a conversation with friend Carol Loomis at the Fortune Most Powerful Women event Monday,Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio), CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A)(NYSE:BRK.B), spoke out about the increase in investing activistm in recent years, saying he had “zero interest” in participating.
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October 19, 2015 9:35 AM
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MONTRÉAL, le 17 oct. 2015 /CNW/ - Quatre-vingt-dix pour cent des chefs de petites et moyennes entreprises (PME)...
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October 19, 2015 9:32 AM
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In my recent paper, “Private and Public Controls in the Over-the-Counter Derivatives Market, 1984-2015”, I study how private and public controls operated jointly in OTC derivatives over the period....
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October 19, 2015 9:32 AM
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Institutional investors’ awareness of the importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors for long-term investment decisions has grown rapidly over the past ten years. So has stakeholders’ awareness of investors’ interest in ESG. As a result, the debate around responsible investment is both broadening and deepening.
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October 19, 2015 9:32 AM
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The role of the board has always been an important and demanding one, but today’s board members face increasingly complex challenges in overseeing an organization’s risk management, including:
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October 19, 2015 9:31 AM
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This post revises our August 3, 2015 post to include additional information relating to the prevalence of certain types of proxy access provisions. In particular, the charts included in Appendix A and Appendix B highlight, on a company-by-company basis, the following terms of proxy access provisions adopted so far this year.
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October 19, 2015 9:31 AM
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Pension funds see the ability to nominate directors as a way to keep boards accountable rather than something that will be used with any frequency
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October 16, 2015 9:26 AM
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Warren Buffett has stock performance on his side in criticizing activist investors and the strategies designed to help companies avoid them, as he did yesterday.
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October 16, 2015 9:25 AM
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In the case of Ferrari, the three issues that merit the most attention are whether the proceeds from the offering will affect value
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October 16, 2015 9:25 AM
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After four down months in the last five, managed futures funds, heavily populated with systematic strategies, gained +1.01% in September
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October 16, 2015 9:20 AM
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Our insider trading laws remind us of an old Churchill quote: It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.[1] Insider trading laws have never defined what constitute illegal insider trad...
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October 16, 2015 9:20 AM
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On September 24, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced it had voted to propose amendments to rules governing its administrative proceedings. SEC Chair Mary Jo White noted that the “proposed amendments seek to modernize our rules of practice for administrative proceedings, including provisions for additional time and prescribed discovery for the parties.”
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October 16, 2015 9:20 AM
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Bridgestone Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has taken the first step towards updating the Company's corporate governance structure
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October 19, 2015 9:47 AM
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Over the past two decades, hedge fund activism has emerged as a new mechanism of corporate governance that brings about operational, financial and governance r…
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October 19, 2015 9:34 AM
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LAVAL, Que. - Valeant Pharmaceuticals (TSX:VRX) says 2015 is shaping up to be more profitable than its previous estimates. The Quebec-based company is now
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October 19, 2015 9:32 AM
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A provision of the Dodd-Frank Act popularly known as the “swaps pushout rule” prohibited FDIC-insured banks from entering into certain types of swaps contracts. Congress recently reversed this prov...
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October 19, 2015 9:32 AM
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Washington D.C., Oct. 16, 2015 — The Securities and Exchange Commission staff today published a report that provides private fund industry statistics and trends, reflecting aggregated data reported by private fund advisers on Form ADV and Form PF. Most of the data in the more than 50 separate tables and figures is being made public for the first time.
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October 19, 2015 9:32 AM
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The credit crisis of 2008 highlighted the criticality of effective liquidity management and demonstrated the difficulties broker-dealers face without adequate funding sources. In response, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) has been taking steps to impose new requirements that will impact many broker-dealers, especially those that hold inventory positions or that clear and carry customer transactions.
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October 19, 2015 9:31 AM
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Alibaba, the New York-listed Chinese e-commerce giant, is getting into video in a major way, after it announced plans to buy out Youku Tudou, one of China's..
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October 16, 2015 9:26 AM
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October 16, 2015 9:26 AM
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The Manhattan Institute Centers’s “Proxy Monitor Season Wrap-Up” is hot off the press, and the findings presented by author James R. Copland, are remarkabl
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October 16, 2015 9:25 AM
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals disclosed late Wednesday that it was subpoenaed by U.S. prosecutors seeking information on its pricing programs.
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October 16, 2015 9:23 AM
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CCGG prepares best practices documents for reporting issuers to provide them with guidance on effective communications with shareholders emphasizing the substance of disclosure that investors expect of regulatory filings.
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October 16, 2015 9:20 AM
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Yvan Allaire and François Dauphin return to a topic on which they have been active and important commentators and analysts; namely, hedge fund activism. Specifically, they report on a new study they conducted: We ... explored, among other things, the consequences of activism over time when compared to a random sample of firms with similar characteristics at the time of intervention. Focusing on activist events of the years 2010 and 2011, we obtained a sample of 290 campaigns initiated by 165 act
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October 16, 2015 9:20 AM
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When the Supreme Court issued its decision in Omnicare, Inc. v. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund, 135 S. Ct. 1318 (2015), plaintiff and defense counsel had warring views on what its practical impact would be, particularly at the motion to dismiss stage of securities class actions brought under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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