Shareholder activism's impact on brand value
There has been a lot of research in recent years showing that a specific form of shareholder activism known as hedge fund activism...
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Shareholders & activism archive
Financial industry looking to operational leaders to drive business change
The majority of business leaders in the financial services industry are now eager for their chief operating officers to play a...
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ISS turns sights to executive pay, board diversity
Consultation by proxy advisory firm ISS as it drafts its guidelines for voting recommendations next year show investor concern...
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Shifting priorities in activist investor proposals in first half of 2014
Amid growing satisfaction among shareholders that advisory votes on executive pay at annual shareholders meetings have advanced...
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Best proxy statements of 2014
How do investors read proxies? Front to back, back to front, skipping ahead to certain sections? When RR Donnelley surveyed...
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Strategy and execution at Canadian AGMs
For centuries, the pottery shard was state-of-the-art technology among those responsible for the democratic process. Today, names...
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Field guide: the next generation of shareholder activists
In the hedge fund world, Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management spawned the Tiger Cubs, successors trained by the Old Guard who then...
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Millstein Forum mulls evolving capital markets' impact on governance
Sometimes it's worth taking a step back to look at the broader business landscape and consider how new developments may impact...
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Shareholder opposition to dual class structure rising
Dual class stock structures, which concentrate voting power disproportionately to economic risk, perform relatively poorly...
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Valeant-Pershing Square alliance: setback for activism?
Just when activist shareholders are gaining more legitimacy along with added board seats, the murky alliance between Valeant...
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