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		<title><![CDATA[Walker Report Will Shake Up Non-Finance Companies Too]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/11/26/walker-report-will-shake-up-non-finance-companies-too/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If you think the Walker Report applies only to banks, think again. Much of what Sir David Walker is recommending today will apply to all companies tomorrow.    Corporate governance codes are a reaction to crises: Cadbury produced the original rulebook after Maxwell's collapse, Higgs revised it after...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:25:27 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bank of America CEO Lewis May Delay Retiring: Report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Bank of America Corp BAC Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis has said he would consider postponing his retirement if directors need more time to find a successor or smooth the transition to the next CEO, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.Citing a person close to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:45:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's Wrong With the Dodd Proposal to Restructure the Fed]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A proposal from Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd  changes the selection process for key positions within the Federal Reserve  system. Unfortunately, this proposal makes the selection process worse, not  better. If this proposal is passed into law, it would further concentrate power  within the Federal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:49:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fairfax Director Evans Resigns]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Fairfax Media director David Evans has been forced to resign from the board after a ruling from the Australian Communications and Media Authority ACMA, the company said on Monday.Mr Evans said in a statement to the ACMA determined that he could not serve on both the Fairfax Media and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:49:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BofA CEO Search to Drag Until Thanksgiving: Report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Bank of America Corp's BAC CEO search could last until Thanksgiving, the New York Post reported on Friday.The paper, citing sources familiar with the matter, said the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank is struggling to find an outside candidate, and the process is creating factions among...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Centro Committee to Monitor ASIC Action]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Centro Properties Group has set up a special committee to consider landmark legal proceedings against eight of its current or former executives and directors."The Special Matters Committee will comprise of all non-involved directors to deal with the ASIC Proceedings and consider any corporate governance implications for Centro," Centro said...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:52:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Boardroom Pay: Heads You Win, Tails You Win]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New statistics on boardroom rewards shows the only concession to recession is to turn bonuses into basic pay.    When business is good, company directors increase their pay to share in the returns. When business is tough they think they deserve a rise in remuneration to compensate for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:45:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NAMI Board Member Was Paid Consultant on AZ's Seroquel, Documents Say]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Dailey, a former National Alliance of the Mentally Ill policy director and board member, was a paid consultant for AstraZeneca's Seroquel marketing team, according to a set of documents that include a contract Dailey signed with the company.    	Download the NAMI/Seroquel documents here.   ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[GNM Axing GuardianAmerica.com, Shuffling Execs In Restructure]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-gnm-axing-guardianamerica.com-shuffling-execs-in-restructure%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Guardian News & Media GNM is shuffling several exec chairs and abandoning its GuardianAmerica.com strategy, as it continues a big structural review. In all, seven execs are either leaving or being promoted to new roles see below for full details, including a new director who will drive overseas expansion.Almost...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[These quotes are from today's editorial breakout sessions from the MPA's first-ever "Innovation Summit" here in New York, where tonight it is raining quite hard.    John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist: "What is the new 'normal' going to be for magazine publishers? The old 'publisher model,' where we...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[UK Directors' Bonuses Have Frozen, Honest]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/10/15/uk-directors-bonuses-have-frozen-honest/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to whatÂ you might be seeing in the news, bonus pay-outs for UK board members have significantly decreased.    A recent Hay Group survey of almost 12,000 senior executives found the median (mid-range) average boardroom director's salary has stayed static in the twelve months to May 2009. Total...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Weekend Round-Up]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/10/12/weekend-round-up-4/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday Times  Hedge fund heroines outdo men in City Mina Gerowin and Leda Braga are two of a small group of women holding their own in this male-dominated area of investing. But it's an uphill struggle with many women finding it hard to flourish in this testosterone-fuelled arena. Speaking...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Weekend Round-Up]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/10/05/weekend-round-up-3/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday Telegraph    Former McDonald's director takes on Italy's historic treasures. Prompting jokes about McDonatellos, a former McDonald's director, Mario Resca, wants to shake up Italy's dusty cultural tourism scene.Â  "I see visitors as customers, clients. When you come to one of my museums, you are a guest...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:11:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[G20 Crowd Could Be Too Inclusive]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The G20 is hailed as the new premier forum for international economic co-operation: the G7 has served its time. But while bringing 20 countries to the global table may look democratic, is it an efficient way to decide anything?    The logistics of 20 prime ministers or presidents,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:34:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Probe into Longbridge payment]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Advantage West Midlands, the regional development agency, has confirmed that it will investigate a £100,000 commission payment to a scrap metal dealer associated with MG Rover, writes Jonathan Guthrie.The businessman, Brian Parker, was a director of the bidding vehicle Techtronic that took over the carmaker in 2000. However, fellow...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's So Good About Long-Term Investors?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/09/17/whats-so-good-about-long-term-investors/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Did ministers ask what companies think before declaring that good investors are long-term shareholders? Ideas have been floated to give long-term shareholders more votes or to allow investors to buy more voting power, but perhaps it is the short-term shareholders who buy and sell that should be rewarded? Corporations need...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:04:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Accountants Messed Up Directors' Summer Holidays]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/09/01/how-accountants-messed-up-directors-summer-holidays/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Boardrooms used to close down for summer while the accountants got the results ready for directors to announce when they returned after the August Bank Holiday. The accountants have retaliated, however, becoming so efficient that boards this year had to break their vacation to issue figures when everyone else is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:34:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How one corporate misstep led to a change in American law]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In recent years great bluster has been generated over accusations that privacy laws or norms were broken by large segments of the US information brokering industry and the anti-terror efforts of the George W. Bush administration. But one misstep by a single big company produced tangible change.Hewlett-Packard was engulfed...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Liability of Board Membership | BTalk Australia]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[    (Episode 306: 15 minutes 45) Back in April, the New South Wales Supreme Court ruled that directors of James Hardie had breached the corporations law by allowing false or misleading statements to be made to the ASX. Kerryn Newton, managing director of Directors Australia says this...]]></description>
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