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The Idea: After losing a proxy fight to the activist investor Carl Icahn, Blockbuster’s then CEO faced a new obstacle: executing strategy in the face of boardroom opposition. He looks back on what he might have done differently. 
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Top of the agenda is a debate over whether the fact that Facebook is controlled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg is good for investors.
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Luluemon Athletica filed for Dennis “Chip” Wilson to sell his family’s stake in the company, a step that could pave the way for Mr. Wilson to end his increasingly fraught relationship with the company he founded.
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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which invests for 18 million Canadians, won the bidding for General Electric Co.’s private-equity lending business.
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Statement Regarding the Need to Modernize the Commission’s Transfer Agent Rules, by Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar and Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher, June 11, 2015
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The Bank of Canada is the nation's central bank. We are not a commercial bank and do not offer banking services to the public. Rather, we have responsibilities for Canada's monetary policy, bank notes, financial system, and funds management. Our principal role, as defined in the Bank of Canada Act, is "to promote the economic and financial welfare of Canada."
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Valeant’s new Chief Financial Officer made his mark as an expert in healthcare mergers and acquisitions, and this is exactly what he wants to continue doing at Canada’s largest publicly-traded...
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Activist investing has quickly emerged as its own asset class as more shareholders seek to squeeze value from a wider array of companies. Activist investors ...
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The SEC has its sights on activist investors, but the hedge fund industry isn't concerned about a crippling crackdown.
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Washington D.C., June 10, 2015 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a New Jersey man accused of posing as a hedge fund manager and defrauding small companies out of more than $4 million.
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Just as a number of market participants are trying to ascertain the motives behind the actions of the O’Hara Administration, so too is Pacific Rubiales
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In the summer of 2014, the biggest activist hedge fund story on anyone’s lips was whether Bill Ackman had broken securities laws when he had accumulated a massive $3 bilion stake, or roughly 9.7% of the outstanding stock of Allergan (using leverage...
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The legal journal Corporate Practice Commentator recently announced the 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2014. Half of those selected this
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Aerospace giant rejected pension fund's conditions ahead of February stock sale
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Has the U.S. economy recovered from the financial crisis almost seven years ago?
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THE struggle has been long and arduous. But gazing across the battered economies of the rich world it is time to declare that the fight...
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The recent volatility in global fixed-income markets has investors worried about return on capital, but also return of capital
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Some day soon, an activist investor is likely to show up on your corporate doorstep. You can turn this engagement to your company’s advantage—provided that you have done the necessary advance preparation.
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Financial power brokers are invited by the Lord Mayor of the City of London to an annual dinner where they can hear the Chancellor of the Exchequer give a speech on the state of the UK economy. The Mansion House Speech is where the political elite reassure the financial elite that all is well with the economy over a lavish meal.
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I missed it yesterday, but here is a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Stephen Schwarzman titled "How the Next Financial Crisis Will Happen," and, spoiler, it's bond market liquidity. And here is Josh Brown arguing that "if enough people believe there could be a liquidity crisis, then there will be a liquidity crisis," which I think is interestingly wrong.
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