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- the system by which companies are directed and controlled. Boards of directors are responsible for the governance of their companies. The stockholders' role in governance is to appoint the directors...
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- Governance regs don't fit us, fund firms say; Operating companies face less scrutiny.(America's Investment)
- Byline: Sara Hansard The mutual fund industry is concerned that proposals to strengthen corporate governance in operating companies aren't appropriate for fund companies. In comments filed last month with the Securities and Exchange Com ...
- Research articles 2003-05-12
- SEC Adopts Rule Requiring Disclosure About Nominating Committees and Communications Between Shareholders and Directors
- Article narrates the rule adopted by SEC for nominating committees and communications between shareholders and directors of the organization. It talks about the changes adopted by SEC to the Proxy Rules to "enhance the transparency of the operation of boards of directors. The new rule requires a statement as to...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Investment Advisers and Investment Companies: Focus on Compliance
- Each investment adviser is expected to identify compliance requirements and potential conflicts that create risk to the firm and its clients and to design policies and procedures that address these risks. The fund board of each investment company is required to adopt policies and procedures to provide for the oversight...
- White papers 2005-05-10
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- Corporate Governance Ratings: Caveat Emptor
- Looking in the rear view mirror reveals many examples over the past decade of massive corporate failures from essentially every sector of our economy, including Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Global Crossing, and Bear Sterns, just to name a few. Unfortunately, the natural reaction to these types of events is to develop...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Corporate governance counts.
- Byline: Kate Askew Jun 18, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Research by Goldman Sachs JBWere establishes a link between good corporate governance and corporate profits. In a report issued in mid-June 2006, the Australian investment house recommends that...
- Research articles 2006-06-18
- Fremont Michigan: Adventures at the Frontier of Corporate Governance
- Harry Long submits: Sometimes, the managements of public companies disappoint us. I have been engaged in a long term relational/activist investment in Fremont Michigan Insuracorp (FMMH.OB) and have gotten to know management, including CEO Richard Dunning, CFO Kevin Kaastra, COO Kent Shantz, EVP David Mangin, VP Kurt Dettmer, and VP...
- External links 2009-03-29
- OUTLOOK: Stelios driven out by risk averse corporate governance
- THE KEY question about Stelios Haji-Ioannou, known universally as just plain Stelios: has he jumped from easyJet or was he pushed? Stelios says he has long been planning to bail out to concentrate on his real talent as a "serial entrepreneur". Christopher Hirst, chief investment manager at the Co-operative Insurance...
- Research articles 2002-04-19
- Quintana Maritime Limited Launches Its Corporate Website
- Quintana Maritime Limited (NASDAQ: QMAR) announced today that it has launched its corporate website, which can be found at www.quintanamaritime.com Stamatis Molaris, the company's President and CEO, commented, "We are committed to maximizing shareholder value not only through the quality of our shipping operations but also through the quality...
- Research articles 2005-09-14
- Misreporting Corporate Performance
- This paper develops a model of the causes and consequences of misreporting of corporate performance. Misreporting in our model covers all actions, whether legal or illegal, that enables managers of firms with low value to make statements that mimic those made by firms with high value. It shows that even...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Management of ASA Limited and ASA -Bermuda- Limited Announces Commitment to Continued and Enhanced Corporate Governance Practices
- NEW YORK -- The Board of Directors of ASA Limited (NYSE:ASA), a closed-end investment company, is soliciting ASA's shareholders to vote on a reorganization to permit ASA to relocate from the Republic of South Africa to the Commonwealth of Bermuda by reorganizing itself into a newly formed company incorporated in...
- Research articles 2004-10-29
- Commercial Governance Ratings in Question
- The Find: Governance advisory firms claim they can predict the future performance of a public company by analyzing public data, but new research claims the value of their ratings is dubious at best. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Miners top governance survey
- Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Intercontinental Hotels Group have taken top honours among large UK companies in a new, wide-ranging corporate governance survey that rates FTSE 100 companies on everything from compensation to community relations.Miners and oil and gas companies on average did better than other sectors on...
- External links 2009-09-27
- United States, Changes to the Mutual Funds Regime
- Over the past year, the booming US economy has led to an enormous influx of US investor dollars into mutual funds. This explosion in the popularity of mutual funds has been accompanied by significant changes in the way mutual funds do business. Sophisticated investors have demanded novel investment vehicles to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Two Important Yet Overlooked Exec Comp Factors
- We read a lot about corporate governance and executive compensation these days, in the wake of last year's economic collapse. Many politicians are now jumping into the fray, saying we need to legislate certain governance requirements, such as splitting the roles of CEO and chairman or lowering CEO pay. Although...
- External links 2009-11-17
- Karma Strikes Investment Banks
- Finally, proof that Karma exists. Wall Street's investment banks have had a sweet deal, a free ride, for decades. Now they’re finally getting what’s coming to them. In every major corporate fraud story --- Enron, WorldCom, Refco, you name it --- at least one investment bank was complicit. Ten...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Peace breaks out at Fairfax
- Rebecca Urban | October 14, 2009 ROGER Corbett has been named the next chairman of Fairfax Media, as the group's fractured board presented a united front after months of infighting. The decision, made at a board meeting in New Zealand yesterday, comes after tensions between dissident directors, John B. Fairfax...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis: The Role of the Federal Reserve
- At the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 54th Economic Conference, Chatham, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009 The theme of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Economic Conference this year–reevaluating regulatory, supervisory, and central banking policies in the wake of the crisis–is certainly timely. Not much more than a year ago, we and...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Board of Directors' Governance Principles - Harleysville Group Inc.
- The primary responsibility of the Board is to manage the business and affairs of the corporation for, in the case of Harleysville Group Inc., the benefit of shareholders, and, in the case of Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company, for the benefit of policyholders. Because the daily operations of the Companies are...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Aon insiders tap into IPO controversy; Corporate governance experts are crying foul.(News)(Aon Chairman and CEO Patrick G. Ryan makes $17 mn investment in insurance company)
- Byline: ALBY GALLUN Several Chicago corporate titans have found a way to earn a lot more than directors' fees for sitting on Aon Corp.'s board. As the Chicago-based insurance company helped launch a new Bermuda-based reinsurance company in late Byline:...
- Research articles 2003-05-05
- News: Sustainability for ABN.
- ABN Amro Asset Management is to apply sustainability principles across all its mainstream portfolios from next year, epn has learned. Edward Moolenburgh, the firm's head of corporate governance and sustainable development, said there were three main strands to the company's goal of embedding sustainable development throughout their operations...
- Research articles 2004-11-22
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