Corporate governance - Vigil

AShareholders who want to put forward candidates for board membership have to have significant skin in the game and for a certain period of time, argues Yvan Allaire, otherwise it's like granting...

Washington D.C., Aug. 27, 2015 — The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that in fiscal year 2016 the fees that public companies and other issuers pay to register their securities with the Commission will be set at $100.70 per million dollars.

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Earnings beats from CIBC and TD follow strong results from Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada and National Bank of Canada earlier in the week, leading to a price surge by bank stocks

Hedge fund mogul William Ackman's Pershing Square Holdings portfolio fell 13.1 percent this month, leaving the fund down 4.3 percent for the year, the firm said on Thursday.The performance numbers

Every August 26th Catalyst is proud to celebrate Women’s Equality Day, a date selected to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which guaranteed US women the

What does the compliance function do to increase shareholder value? It's a question you've no doubt heard before, in some form or another. Tom Fox argues that no company with strong internal controls is run more poorly because of them. No -- in fact, stakeholders are necessarily better off when the company is kept on the right side of the law.

Mylan and Perrigo Co. are taking their last swings at each other in the final days before Mylan shareholders vote on whether the generic drug maker should make a formal tender offer for Perrigo, an Irish over-the-counter drug specialist that opposes the hostile bid. On Tuesday, Mylan issued a statement saying that Irish regulators overseeing the takeover battle have faulted Perrigo for making statements that may mislead shareholders and could create uncertainty. Mylan said the statements violate

Activist investor Carl Icahn disclosed an 8.5% stake in mining-and-energy giant Freeport-McMoRan on Thursday, saying its shares are undervalued and that he plans to talk with management about costs.

The Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) recently published a policy encouraging issuers to take measures to enhance "proxy access", meaning…

Total compensation for chief executive officers of US public companies in the Russell 3000 Index soared in 2014, up 11.9 percent from 2013 and as much as 34.7 percent from 2010. The performance of the equity market was the main driver of the upward trend. Only a small part of CEO earnings comes from base salary; performance-based components now dominate. 

Preparations for the IPO of Japan Post — an estimated Y1.5tn ($12bn) listing set to dwarf all others in the country’s history — remain deadlocked on a question of national interest: will there be gifts for the new army of shareholders? According to