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Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Thomas Chemmanur, Professor of Finance at Boston College, and Yingzhen Li of The Brattle Group. 
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Shareholder activism has very little currency in Asia now when compared to the West. Gautam Srinivasan finds out why.
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by Bob McAdam Many of you have been reading about and maybe even fearing shareowner activism. I have lived it. It wasn’t easy but here are some lessons I learned as Darden’s chief communications officer. First, some background. In October 2014, the entire 12-member board of directors for Darden Restaurants was ousted via a proxy…
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Cumulative Returns to Activist Hedge Funds and Other Hedge Funds 2012-2014 pic.twitter.com/zpALaSqzfa
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Opening Statement to the March 2015 Meeting of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies
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Shareholders who have stuck it out through the 44% decline in Bombardier Inc's stock price this year may not be rewarded with the chance to question management at an investor day.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund mogul William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management returned a net 5.8 percent in February, leaving the fund up 6.5 percent for the year, an investor said.The activist
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WASHINGTON, March 4, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The
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Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Ernst & Young LLP, and is based on a publication by the EY Center for Board Matters.
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“I like this as an investment,” said Michel Nadeau, a former Caisse vice-president who now leads the Institute for Governance in Montreal as executive director.
Institut sur la gouvernance (IGOPP)'s insight:
Citation Michel Nadeau
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Recent headlines raised the question of whether activist investors are targeting women CEOs. The question is provocative. But let’s keep in mind the bigger story: there are simply not enough women in leadership positions.
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Over the last five years, the Activist Hedge funds have delivered higher returns than the overall hedge fund industry (HFI) benchmark. Last year the Activi
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The surge of activist hedge funds (global) pic.twitter.com/gj9iOcW2U9
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The financial services industry is on more solid footing than it has been for quite some time, yet institutional investors are increasingly taking equity stakes in the funds in which they invest, a re
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Encana Corp. said Wednesday it would raise $1.25 billion in a bought deal offering to strengthen its balance sheet
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(Reuters) - Activist investor Starboard Value LP asked office supplies retailer Staples Inc to improve the composition of its board to complete the acquisition of Office Depot Inc
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Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Andrew Call of the School of Accountancy at Arizona State University, Gerald Martin of the Department of Finance and Real Estate at American Unive...
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by Ben Dipietro for The Wall Street Journal U.S. regulators this year are emphasizing the importance for corporate boards to take responsibility for cybersecurity, saying directors and officers who...
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Robert Pozen explains the possible effects of a law that might make it possible for shareholders to nominate directors.
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