The trillion-dollar pig
They now control $1 tn in assets in the US alone, and they have more than doubled in size in the past two years. Moreover, these...
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Boardroom archive
Mailing madness
In the proxy mailing process few things are as important as accuracy. ‘More than 17 percent of the population moves every year...
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Rewriting the minutes
‘Because there’s a buzz about how important minutes are, people who draft minutes are paying more attention,’ says Robert Lamm...
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Directors go back to school
‘If you were lucky enough to be on a board with other directors who really knew what they were doing, then you learned well,’ says...
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Testing directors
Most companies just limit evaluations to the overall boardroom assessment required under NYSE listing rules. Understandably, they...
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Promoted to the limelight
Anxious to help restore the post-Enron breach of trust, stand-alone corporate committees devoted to exemplary governance certainly...
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Gambling on governance
Good governance certainly comes at a premium. The cost of complying with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley is, as we are learning, no...
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Eliot Spitzer: friend or foe
US Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue lambasted Spitzer in early July, saying the attorney general had exceeded his...
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Boardroom dynamics
As such, corporate secretaries have spent much of the last few years making sure their boards meet the requirements for...
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Guiding e-discovery
Issued in March 2003, the principles were authored by the working group of the Sedona Conference, a confederation of private...
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