The Idea in Brief Private equity funds' outsize returns to shareholders have many public company managers asking, "If they can get that kind of performance out of a company, why can't we?" Some counter that private...
Financial Executive's Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Marshall and Executive Editor Ellen M. Heffes recently spoke with Robert C. Pozen, the chair of the recently formed SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting CIFR, sponsored by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Pozen answered questions about a broad...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting CIFR held its first meeting at SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C., on August 2. The committee's chair, Robert C. Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management, was formerly vice chairman of Fidelity Investments...
One can only hope that Securities & Exchange Commission SEC Chairman Chris Cox's new SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting is a little more successful than his last advisory committee. That would be the one that made recommendations on how to make Section 404...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- POZEN Inc. (NASDAQ: POZN) announced today that John R. Plachetka, Pharm.D., the company's chairman, president and chief executive officer, will present at the Robert W. Baird & Co. 2007 Growth Stock Conference on Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 7:45 a.m. CT at the Four Seasons Hotel...
Byline: Robert C. Pozen Over the last decade, hedge funds have soared to more than $1 trillion in assets from less than $200 billion. Today the hottest subcategory is the fund of funds, which holds more than 45% of hedge fund assets and garners...
WASHINGTON -- Robert C. Pozen, the business executive who developed the theory behind President Bush's plan to trim Social Security benefits in the future, urged the president on Thursday to drop his insistence on using a portion of workers' taxes to pay for individual investment accounts. ...
Byline: David Hoffman PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The benefits of fund company mergers and acquisitions and of being a shop that produces, sells and packages mutual funds may be waning because of changes in the industry. The result:...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- RealTimeInsider.com, the only service that provides instant desktop alerts on insider trading filings, (http://www.realtimeinsider.com/default.asp?aid=657) reports on today's largest open market buys by key insiders. Robert C. Pozen, Director of Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT), purchased a total of 20,000 shares at an average price of $48.21....
MINNEAPOLIS -- Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT), today announced the election to its Board of Directors of Robert C. Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management. Pozen is a director of BCE, the parent company of Bell Canada, a director of Bank of New York and a trustee of the Commonwealth Fund, a...
Byline: Frederick P. Gabriel Jr. Robert C. Pozen has a lot to say about retirement. In fact, the former president of Fidelity Investments' funds unit, who joined MFS Investment Management in February as its chairman, is...
Robert C. Pozen, a veteran of the mutual fund industry, assumed the title of non-executive chairman of MFS Investment Management in February. The 57-year-old joined the nation's oldest mutual fund company - a subsidiary of Sun Life Financial, the Canadian life insurance company - within months...
Business Editors ADVISORY...for today --BUSINESS WIRE--MFS Investment Management WHAT: MFS Investment Management To Discuss Series of Pro-Investor Actions Taken to Strengthen Fund Governance and Tighten ...
Byline: David Hoffman MFS Investment Management is going on the defensive. The Boston-based mutual fund company is working to regain the trust and confidence of the advisers who sell its funds, in part by touting its...
By Beth Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 20--Former Fidelity Investments executive Robert C. Pozen's mutual fund textbook may be good enough for Harvard University's budding politicians and lawyers -- but not for its future business leaders. ...
Business Editors WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--March 10, 2004 MFS Chair Testifies on Social Security Before Congressional Joint Economic Committee With personal savings rates low and concerns growing about Social Security's solvency, Americans need incentives to invest in private savings plans, said Robert C. Pozen,...
In his days as a senior executive at Fidelity Investments, Robert C. Pozen was wary of mutual funds with too few stocks. "Ex-post we are all geniuses, but ex-ante it is pretty hard to figure out which ones are going to go up and which are going to go down,"...
By Steven Oberbeck, The Salt Lake Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 27--What are the four most dangerous words in investing? "This time it's different," a Fidelity Investments executive said in Salt Lake City on Friday. ...
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