Corporate governance - Vigil

Japan’s Kuroda Electric Shareholders Reject Activist Proposal

Just after the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged over 1,000 points on Monday morning, New York-based hedge fund manager Sahm Adrangi sent around his weekly note showing his fund lost 2 percent so

Monday’s market rout brought shares of Alibaba Group Holding below their debut price, a sign market turmoil could further slow an already sluggish year for IPOs.

Shareholders in an electronics parts trading company in Osaka voted Friday against making Yoshiaki Murakami, o

Although there have been some many bearish reports on hedge funds over the last week or so, things may be looking up. The problem is that, in general, most have been underperforming year to date, but

Cheniere said Monday that Jonathan Christodoro and Samuel Merksamer, managing directors for a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises LP, had been appointed to the board of directors, effective immediately.

Activist investors have more cash and are chasing bigger targets. That translates into big business for Wall Street's top banks.

Efforts to improve business practices and policies are gaining support and momentum around the world. Companies and boards ignore this trend at their peril.

Clinton's proposal to hike taxes on shorter investor holding periods and require activists to disclose their stakes earlier comes right out of the Marty Lipton playbook and would help corporations.

Shareholder activism continues to play a dominant role in the breakup of companies to unlock shareholder potential.

Momentum is the buzzword that best describes the 2015 Proxy Season in the U.S. market. Some issues, such as proxy access, hit the ground running and emerged as ballot box juggernauts. Other topics, such as calls for independent board chairs and heightened scrutiny of human rights, stumbled and lost ground.

Goldman Sachs' (NYSE:GS) Hedge Fund Trend Monitor, a quarterly round-up of 13-F filings and hedge fund trends, was published this week. The report analyzes 833 Hedge Funds with $2.1 trillion of gross