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DuPont's efforts to reach shareholders is a sign the proxy war with Trian is close. 
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Canada agreed to sell its remaining stake in General Motors to Goldman Sachs for an undisclosed amount—a deal that helps bolster the Conservative government’s pledge to balance the books before elections.
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NYC comptroller reaches proxy access settlements with some companies, CII and US Chamber weigh-in on universal proxy ballots, and Delaware attorneys again propose fee-shifting bylaw legislation.
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There's a lot of debate about whether activist investors are good or bad for Wall Street, and this is one debate that's likely to rage on forever. The overall sentiment on activism is positive, howeve
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Uralkali receives carnallite extraction licence; Belarusian president maintains position on marketing re-merger; Arab Potash signs supply deal with China for 2015.
Institut sur la gouvernance (IGOPP)'s insight:
Citation Yvan Allaire
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Cement maker Holcim has backed Eric Olsen as chief executive following the Swiss firm's planned merger with French peer Lafarge , a source familiar with
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Groveland Capital has taken a small stake in the owner of Steak ‘n Shake. It is asking shareholders to oust the firm’s entire board, including Sardar Biglari, its chairman and chief executive.
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"Rona is expressing a high level of confidence in its business by aggressively repurchasing its own shares."
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Learn more at PwC.com - http://pwc.to/1HGB6Ne Is your company prepared for a shareholder activist campaign? Watch and find out what your company should know ...
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In an age of disruption, investor activism, cyberwar, and regulator pressure, corporate directors are taking on ever more authority.
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NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - Some top shareholders of IBM, disappointed by 11 straight quarters of falling revenues, are seeking help from activist investors to shake up the company, but have been turned down by both Bill Ackman's Pershing Square and Jeffrey Ubben's ValueAct, according to people with knowledge of the matter. International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) is concerned about a possible attack by prominent activist hedge funds, and is working with two investment banks to formulate a d
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In The Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that index funds yield better results than most activist funds, despite all the ‘value-enhancing’ talk.
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(Reuters) - Bojangles' Inc, a chicken-and-biscuits restaurant chain in the United States, filed with the country's regulators for an initial public offering of its common stock.The filing from the Advent
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After two record-setting years in a row, activists are back at it again only in even bigger numbers this year, according to a Moody's report.
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Using a large data set of hand-collected information on recent hedge fund activist interventions through mid-2014, we find that both the number of hedge fund ac
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Shareholder activism has been on the rise for several years and is now at record levels. In 2014, we...
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PARIS, April 9 (Reuters) - Canadian planemaker Bombardier expects its long-delayed CSeries passenger jet toreceive certification in 2015, enabling the aircraft to startoperating soon afterwards, a company
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Corporate boards, waking up to headlines about major security breaches, are asking more pointed questions about company technology strategies and vulnerabilities.
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The activist investors of Wall Street — who often buy stakes in companies and lobby for change — are an increasingly powerful force.
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Investors prefer to lose lending income rather than forfeit their proxy votes, academics have found.
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