Billionaire Carl Icahn exited his Netflix Inc. stake as the stock doubled this year to lead the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and the video-streaming company announced a stock split
An activist shareholder who has been pushing for change at struggling Christopher & Banks Corp. of Plymouth is now elevating his campaign to an all-out proxy battle.
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the advocate for the profession of directorship, today released key findings from its forthcoming 2015–2016 Public Company Governance Survey which reveal that boards' understanding of cybersecurity risk needs significant improvement. Only 11% of survey respondents believe their boards have a high level of understanding of the risks associated with cybersecurity.
Citadel LLC, one of the world's largest hedge funds, is planning to launch a new equities business based on the West Coast that will be run by a former top executive who is returning to the firm after
The Hong Kong bourse is consulting investors over current rules which ban dual-class shares, indicating it wants change. But it faces opposition from a group of large fund managers which favour one share, one vote.
Today’s public company executives face a considerably different set of opportunities and constraints than their counterparts from the managerial capitalism era,
Iain Weir Jones is in a position not that common in Canadian business: he took the reins of TSX-Venture listed, Med Bio-Gene Inc. less than one year back following a extended proxy battle
Credit bureau TransUnion said its initial public offering has been priced at $22.50 per share, valuing the company at about $4 billion.The company said in a statement it will receive net proceeds of
Is executive pay becoming a hot button issue for activist hedge funds? While executive pay has long been under scrutiny from standard-issue corporate governance activists, such as union...
Preqin currently tracks 519 activist hedge funds collectively managing over USD140 billion in assets, an increase from the USD127 billion as of December 2014.
The Impact Of Proxy Voting On SBA Portfolio Holdings by SBA Florida Executive Summary First of its kind empirical analysis of institutional investor’s proxy voting decisions involving dual board nomin
Recently, a lot of media attention has been devoted to the growth in hedge fund activism and the question of whether rules regarding disclosure should be changed with respect to the number of days wit
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