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Action by a group of dissident shareholders at Winnipeg-based Temple Hotels Inc. has brought results in a very short period of time
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A group of minority shareholders have bought up 5.5% in Aura Minerals, pushing for an ousting of CEO James Bannantine and sell of the company. The group cites management and the board as the sole reas
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A report from executive compensation consulting firm Pay Governance finds that shareholder proposals to influence environmental/social policies at U.S
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Considering who might be next in line is a process that must account for the unexpected
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Strine, who many Canadians know for his unflattering assessment of Conrad Black in a 2004 trial, had planned to travel to Toronto for an Institute of Corporate Directors conference
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“For the first time in the history of Quebec, we had a strong private sector economy and Jacques Parizeau is responsible for that,” said Michel Nadeau, a former chief investment officer at Caisse.
Institut sur la gouvernance (IGOPP)'s insight:
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Merger and acquisition activity in the U.S. surged last year, the most active 12 months of deals since before the global economic crisis took root in 2008.1 That burst of activity doesn’t appear to be just a temporary rebound. Executives at U.S. private equity firms and corporations expect the robust pace of mergers and acquisitions to extend—or even accelerate—beyond that strong showing in 2015, according to survey findings in Deloitte’s second annual M&A Trends Report.
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The SEC recently issued a proposed rule1 that would amend Regulation S-K, Item 402,2 to implement a mandate under the Dodd-Frank Act3 requiring a registrant to disclose the relationship between executive compensation actually paid and the financial performance of the registrant.
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HEDGE FUND SOLUTIONS (HFS) provides investment research, strategy and stakeholder communications consulting to companies and investors interested in, or involved with, shareholder activist campaigns. Since 2001 HFS has become the trusted advisor to numerous institutional investors, CEOs and board members worldwide. HFS also administers The Official Activist Investing Blog™, the definitive source for activist shareholder information.
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In the years that the Montreal-based engineering company has been an owner of the toll road, it has made several attempts to dispose of all or some of its stake. So far one of those attempts has been...
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Don't call a collection of hedge funds a "group"; they hate that.
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If you are anything like me, Annual General Meetings do not normally feature as compelling events in your calendar. AGMs are often boring sequences of compliance-oriented voting, with little if any...
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U.S. companies whose financial statements contain errors may soon have to “claw back” some of their top executives’ compensation as a result.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. mutual funds are placing bigger bets on privately held companies to get a head start finding the next IPO superstar, a strategy that has yielded some dramatic payoffs and flameouts.Fast-growing
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PCAOB provides inspections insights in the first of a series of planned communications to audit committees The PCAOB released the first Audit Committee Dialogue offering insights from public company audit inspections, which may be helpful to audit committees in overseeing auditors. The document focuses on areas of recurring concern in inspections of large audit firms where significant audit deficiencies have been identified. Also highlighted are certain emerging risks to the audit and their associated indicators, as well as questions that committee members can consider asking auditors.
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One of the central objectives of corporate strategy is for executive management to think holistically about a company’s portfolio of businesses—conceiving and spearheading ways to make the aggregate value of a company’s holdings durable over time, and greater than the sum of its parts. This vital mission comprises two central questions: In which businesses should we participate? And, how do we create value within and across1 our businesses? In other words, where will we play and how will we win,2 at the portfolio level?
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The view at the top is exhilarating. So is the weather. When crisis looms, board members are exposed in ways that may be unfamiliar – and drawn into an active role that’s distinct from what management is going through.
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