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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
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- Thai Agency Proposes Cut in Fees for Corporate Governance Ratings.
- By Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 13--Thai Rating and Information Services has proposed to stock exchange officials that fees charged for listed firms seeking a corporate governance rating be cut by 20-25 percent. Tris...
- Research articles 2002-08-13
- Thai Aviation Fuel Firm's Management Wins High Marks on Corporate Governance.
- By Krissana Parnsoonthorn, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 6--Bangkok Aviation Fuel Services Plc's corporate governance practices have been graded as "good to excellent" by the Thai Rating & Information Service Co. Bafs is the first company participating...
- Research articles 2002-11-06
- Sensient Technologies Corporation Achieves High Score on ISS Corporate Governance Index; Company Outperforms 88% of Peers
- MILWAUKEE -- Sensient Technologies Corporation (NYSE:SXT) today announced that the Company received a high score on its Corporate Governance Quotient CGQ, the corporate governance rating issued periodically by Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, as a result of its strong corporate governance. In the new CGQ scores as of May 1, 2005,...
- Research articles 2005-05-05
- Green Mountain Power Announces Improved Corporate Governance Initiatives
- Energy Editors/Business Editors COLCHESTER, Vt.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 14, 2004 Green Mountain Power Corporation (NYSE: GMP) today announced that it has achieved the highest Corporate Governance Quotient rating from Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, the leading national provider of proxy voting and corporate governance services. "ISS has awarded Green Mountain...
- Research articles 2004-05-14
- Alcoa Receives Highest Ranking on Corporate Governance
- PITTSBURGH -- Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it received a 10 rating - the highest rating available for corporate governance -- by Governance Metrics International GMI, the world's first corporate governance ratings agency. Only 33 worldwide companies of 3,200 companies evaluated received the top ranking.
- Research articles 2005-09-15
- Thai Rating Service to Draft Ratings Plan for Corporate Governance.
- Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 11--The Securities and Exchange Commission has given the Thai Rating and Information Services Co a three-year contract to establish a ratings framework for corporate governance. The governance ratings will help track corporate efforts to...
- Research articles 2002-02-11
- EDO Corporation Corporate Governance Guidelines
- The corporate governance guidelines of EDO Corporation include the role and composition of the Board of Directors. Except for those matters reserved for decision by the Company's shareholders, the Board of Directors is the ultimate decision-making body of the Company. A majority of the Board members must be Independent Directors....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Corporate Governance Update
- In the wake of corporate scandals and deep erosion in the value of stock portfolios, the American government and investors have mandated changes in the business practices of publicly held companies. This corporate governance update focuses on two distinct, yet inter-related, changes which have emanated from this mandate: one is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Thailand Stock Exchange Approves 36 Million Baht for Corporate Governance.
- Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 26--The Stock Exchange of Thailand board has approved a total budget of 36 million baht to promote corporate governance. Kittiratt Na Ranong, the SET's president, said the exchange governors had agreed to...
- Research articles 2002-07-26
- Wimm-Bill-Dann Assigned Highest Corporate Governance Score in Russia
- MOSCOW, Russia -- Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods OJSC (NYSE:WBD) today announced the upgrade of its corporate goverance score. On May 18, 2006, Standard & Poor's Governance Services announced the upgrade of WBD's Corporate Governance Score CGS from 7 to 7+ (from 7.3 and 7.7 accordingly on the Russian national scale), which...
- Research articles 2006-05-18
- Alcoa Receives Top Marks in Corporate Governance and Ethics
- NEW YORK -- Alcoa (NYSE:AA) received top rankings on its corporate governance practices and ethical reputation by two major rating agencies.
- Research articles 2006-10-04
- Twelve Thai Firms Firmly Commit to New Corporate-Governance Ratings.
- By Darana Chudasri, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 27--Twelve listed companies have firmly expressed interest in seeking corporate governance ratings from Thai Rating Information Services Tris next year, according to president Warapatr Todhanakasem. Another 40...
- Research articles 2002-11-27
- Will Corporate Governance Ratings Help Investors?
- After the scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia Communications, Arthur Andersen and a host of other U.S. firms, a number of credit rating organizations, along with a handful of other business research groups, are now offering up opinions, ratings and other barometers on the effectiveness of corporate governance at a variety...
- White papers 2003-06-18
- 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
- Is Rating Firms While Selling Them Consulting a Conflict?
- (Editor's Note: The is the second in a four part series. Read the first part here.) A few years ago, James P. Melican was helping prepare International Paper Co. for an upcoming annual meeting. Then the paper giant’s executive vice president, Melican worked with other top officials...
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Institutional Shareholder Services to provide corp. governance
- Institutional Shareholder Services, of Rockville, has been selected by Dow Jones Newsletters to provide corporate governance quotient CGQ data to the Dow Jones' Corporate Governance newsletter. CGQ is a rating system designed to assist institutional investors in evaluating the quality of corporate boards and the impact their governance practices may...
- Research articles 2003-12-17
- Scorecards On Governance: Are Banks Up To Par?
- Corporate governance. It's Topic A just about anywhere you go. Companies that don't follow hallowed standards are in danger of shareholder backlash—or worse. To help illuminate what good corporate governance really means, a cottage industry has sprung up that purports to rate companies' governance practices and in some cases, tie...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Canada first in governance.
- Byline: Kit Bingham Canadian companies have the best corporate governance standards in the world, according to a new global rating service.GovernanceMetrics International GMI, which launched last year, rating US companies, has scored 600 large non-US companies. Canadian groups emerge with the best average...
- Research articles 2003-08-03
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