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- A Very Busy Season for Shareholder Activists
- It is shaping up as a very busy season for shareholder activism, in part because of investor disgust with the lack of management oversight of lending practices that led to the current sub prime and credit crisis. So far this year, shareholders have put forward 1,106 proposals...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Wage-gap cap? Some say its time has come.(Enterprise)
- Is the CEO overpaid? Some look to the stock price for the answer. Others eye earnings. But a growing group of shareholder activists are pushing for yet another measure: the difference between what the CEO earns and what his average employee earn...
- Research articles 2004-05-24
- Proxy voting interpretation: Investment advisers may have to don shareholder activism hat under rules.(News)
- Byline: Barry B. Burr Investment advisers likely will have to become shareholder activists, based on an interpretation of SEC rules on proxy voting. "Yes, there may be circumstances when I believe an investment adviser may have to become a Byline:...
- Research articles 2003-05-12
- Shareholder tests biotech firm ; Northfield Labs deals with FDA setback.(C. Robert Coates presses for disclosure, management change)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- A shareholder activist has shaken up Northfield Laboratories Inc. After working on developing a blood substitute for nearly two decades, the Evanston-based biotechnology company had its application to the Food and Drug Administration FDA rejected A shareholder activist has shaken up Northfield Laboratories Inc....
- Research articles 2002-08-12
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- Ownership and sustainability: the case for shareholder activism to promote corporate responsibility. (Interview).(Interview)
- An Interview with Robert Monks ROBERT MONKS is the world's highest profile shareholder activist. He founded Lens, an institutional shareholder activist fund, and Institutional Shareholder Services, now the leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance services. He served in the Department of...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Motorola, Icahn publicly vie for shareholder allegiance (Electronic News)
- The high-stakes corporate battle continues to heat up between the current members of Motorola Inc. http://www.motorola.com's board of directors and the board's prospective party-crasher, famed billionaire shareholder activist Carl Icahn. The high-stakes corporate battle continues to heat up between the current members of Motorola...
- Research articles 2007-05-07
- Changing the board is central to success of shareholder activism.
- Byline: Kit Bingham US companies have faced a blizzard of new corporate governance laws and regulations in the past two years but real reform is yet to come, according to a prominent US shareholder activist.Ralph Whitworth, principal of Relational Investors, a $2.4bn ([euro]2.1m) activist...
- Research articles 2003-11-16
- Wall Street giants face shareholder pressure at AGMs.
- Byline: Jeremy Adams Senior executives at Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are set to come under fire from shareholder activists over corporate governance at the US investment banks' annual general meetings.The California Public Employees' Retirement System and Evelyn Davis, the veteran individual shareholder activist,...
- Research articles 2004-04-20
- Shareholder of Failing Clothing Designer Launches Attack on Company Board.
- By Monty Phan, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 12--Struggling clothier Nautica Enterprises has failed to adapt to consumers' changing tastes, analysts said yesterday, a day after a noted shareholder activist with a history of shaking up companies' management...
- Research articles 2003-06-12
- BNP Paribas answers call for shareholder rights.
- Byline: Michael Hoare BNP Paribas has responded to a call from shareholder activist Deminor to clarify its position on Consors France, the subsidiary of an internet broker it bought at the end of April. Deminor had demanded that the French bank "without delay make...
- Research articles 2002-05-31
- Shareholder Groups Slam UK Energy Supplier for Chief's Pay.
- The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 22--Scottish & Southern Energy SSE has been criticised by shareholder activist groups after it was revealed that chief executive Ian Marchant will pocket more than UKpound 1m (e1.4m, $1.65m) if the company loses ...
- Research articles 2003-06-22
- Big or small, no place to hide. (Lens Inc.; Juno Lighting Inc.)
- Shareholder activist, flush from larger targets, makes an example of tiny Juno The shareholder activist group that has taken on such local corporate titans as Waste Management Inc. and Sears, Roebuck and Co. is now shining the spotlight on a more dimiShareholder activist, flush from larger...
- Research articles 1998-03-09
- LENS RENEWS FOCUS ON JUNO LIGHTING.
- Dissident shareholders of Juno Lighting Inc. submitted a shareholder resolution for next spring's annual meeting that would limit the board to no more than one inside director. Washington, D.C., shareholder activist group Lens Inc., which owns a 6% s Dissident shareholders of Juno Lighting Inc. submitted...
- Research articles 1998-11-16
- Lessons of activism.(Editorial)(Cintas Corp.)
- Byline: Barry B. Burr James Peck might now be called the Rosa Parks of the shareholder activism movement. Instead he is hailed as the "first militant social issue shareholder activist.'' In 1948, Mr. Peck bought a share of Greyhound Corp. s ...
- Research articles 2005-12-26
- TCI Co-Founder Patrick Degorce Has Left Hedge Fund
- William Hutchings, of Financial News, files this dispatch on changes at the top of one of the world's best known activist hedge funds. Financial News is a Dow Jones publication and a contributor to Deal Journal. Patrick Degorce, who helped start the activist hedge-fund manager The Children's Investment Fund Management...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Shell, Statoil and XTO Mark Day of Shareholder Revolt
- Shareholder rebellion was in the air this week. And while not all were successful, the sheer number reveals just how emboldened and peeved investors have become over hefty bonuses and compensation packages awarded to executives who have failed to meet expectations. Royal Dutch Shell took the biggest hit....
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Olin Is Coming Under Pressure To Pick Up Restructuring Pace
- Non-core activities need to go, shareholders insist. INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT firm Franklin Mutual Advisors Inc., led by high-profile shareholder activist Michael Price, is taking aim at Olin Corporation, urging the company to pick up the pace of Non-core activities need to go, shareholders...
- Research articles 1998-04-20
- Whitworth: The Alchemist In the Boardroom
- The activist shareholder effects boardroom change to increase value-what's so wrong about that? Board members could be forgiven if they reach for the aspirin when they hear that Ralph Whitworth is calling. After all, the co-founder of Relational Investors has played a highly public role in the ouster...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Perspective: Yahoo?s Turnaround Efforts Are Straight from Steve Jobs? Playbook
- Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz?s overhaul of the Internet pioneer is similar to the steps Steve Jobs took to save Apple when he came back in 1998. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Carol Bartz, the still new CEO of...
- Articles 2009-11-17
- Forty-Seven Percent Report Activist Investor Ownership in NIRI's First Activist Investor Survey
- Investor Relations Officers Play Unique Role as Key Strategist in Developing Response VIENNA, Va. -- According to survey results released today by the National Investor Relations Institute NIRI, activist investors represent a significant presence in today's shareholder landscape often making considerable demands of public companies, and corporate Investor Relations...
- Research articles 2007-08-27
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