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- Challenge to Life Partners' Auditor: Address Red Flags
- Shareholder Watchdog submits: In February 2009 Citron Research and Jim Cramer provided a critical assessment of Life Partners’ LPHI business and management. The Citron report focused on LPHI's "egregious fees", the unlikely sustainability of those fees, the CEO’s past accounting indiscretions, and LPHI's tiny auditor and equally-small audit fees. A...
- External links 2009-04-28
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- AUSTRALIAN WATCHDOG STILL CONCERNED OVER FOXTEL DEAL: PAPER.
- SYDNEY, Oct 22 Asia Pulse - The consumer watchdog is reportedly still concerned with key parts of the proposed Foxtel-Optus pay TV alliance, with speculation the deal could collapse. The Australian Financial Review AFR said the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ACCC is unhappy with the structure of...
- Research articles 2002-10-22
- Boot camps for boards: Sessions energize even the sleepiest directors, helping bosses avert shareholder lawsuits and watchdog scrutiny - Corporate Governance
- After successfully settling one shareholder lawsuit brought against Peerless Systems Corp.--and now knee-deep in another battle being waged against Landry's Seafood Restaurants -- SWIB, the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, is emphatic in its views on how corporations should be governed. Some people don't care, but we do," says...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Shareholder advisers endorse $6 billion Reckson deal
- It's a trifecta for Reckson: Three heavy-hitting shareholder advisery groups have given the thumbs-up to Reckson's sale to SL Green Realty Corp. Institutional Shareholders Services, a venerable independent corporate watchdog, recommended that shareholders endorse the deal when they meet Nov. 22, as have Proxy Governance Inc. and Glass,...
- Research articles 2006-11-17
- `Handle other people's money with care', BUSINESS TIMES
- Business Times Malaysia 01-06-2003 IN KEEPING with the New Year merry-making and not to be a party pooper, I would like to beg your indulgence to steer away from your run-of- the-mill news and talk about something entertaining - the film...
- Research articles 2003-01-06
- "Say on Pay" Loses Support at Big Financial Houses
- While gaining among corporations in general, "Say on Pay" support is losing favor among financial companies, according to a new report by The Corporate Library. The shareholder watchdog group notes that "Say on Pay" lost support among eight major financial firms during this proxy season. The list...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Investor watchdog groups criticize San Diego-based Sempra Energy for
- San Diego-based Sempra Energy, which has applied for federal approval to build several liquefied natural gas terminals in the Gulf of Mexico, is taking heat for holding its annual shareholder meeting in London.
- Research articles 2005-04-11
- French watchdog probes Eurotunnel share movements
- PARIS AFP ? A judicial procedure that implicitly targets French financial advisor and Eurotunnel shareholder Nicolas Miguet was launched in November by the recently deposed Eurotunnel management, a source close to the matter revealed. The investigation by magistrate Rene Cros follows allegations of distribution of false information and share...
- Research articles 2004-04-09
- The end of the casino society? (shareholder activism) (Business)
- "PENSION POWER" is being touted as the great new watchdog of American business. This year should reveal how much substance lies behind the ballyhoo. For decades, America's big institutional investors-pension funds, insurance firms, mutual-fund companies and banks-tried to beat other stockmarket investors at picking and choosing...
- Research articles 1991-01-12
- CIVIC GROUP TO MONITOR KOREA EXCHANGE BANK SHAREHOLDER MEETING.
- SEOUL, Feb 4 Asia Pulse - Civic group the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy PSPD said it would send representative to this year's Korea Exchange Bank KEB shareholders meeting to strengthen monitoring of financial institutions. The civic watchdog, which has sent officials to shareholders meetings for Samsung Electronics...
- Research articles 2002-02-04
- Shareholder Activism: Fifth Third Bank Makes It Tough for Social Advocates
- Fifth Third Bancorp faced a proxy vote in its annual meeting this year that small and mid-tier banks would be wise to heed. A proposal from Boston's NorthStar Asset Management called for a bank policy that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. Sexual orientation is the one type of...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- Watchdog in row with Emap
- Pirc, the shareholder rights action group, yesterday accused Emap, the media conglomerate, of "disingenuousness" in the latest salvo in Emap's debilitating boardroom bust-up. Coming out squarely in favour of two dissident non-executive directors, whose removal Emap's management is seeking at an EGM next Monday, Pirc said shareholders should...
- Research articles 1996-11-26
- At Deadline.(Late News)(credit ratings for Resurrection Health Care)(A. M. Castle's largest shareholder plans to sell 2 million shares)(opposition to Rod R. Blagojevich)
- Civic group raps guv's budget plan An influential Chicago financial watchdog is giving a thumbs down to Gov. Blagojevich's proposed fiscal 2008 budget and $7.6-billion tax on corporate receipts, but says it could back a more modest income tax hike. The Civic Federation terms...
- Research articles 2007-05-07
- Sunrise to benefit from property market upturn, BUSINESS TIMES
- Business Times Malaysia 10-13-2003 THE Minority Shareholder Watchdog Group MSWG had the good fortune to be invited to sit in as an observer at Kamunting Corp Bhd's annual general meeting AGM and as a proxy for its extraordinary general meeting on...
- Research articles 2003-10-13
- Corporate governance report card
- ONE OF THE CORE PRODUCTS OF THE MINORITY SHAREHOLDER Watchdog Group MSWG is ascertaining the level of corporate governance among the public-listed companies PLCs of Bursa Malaysia. Towards this end, MSWG, in collaboration with the Nottingham University Business School, conducted a corporate governance survey covering the top-200 PLCs. The 2006...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Profitable, Not "Palatable".
- By Linda Moss How FX Keeps Advertisers On Board When Its Shows Are Under Attack At News Corp.'s annual shareholder meeting last month, chairman Rupert Murdoch got an earful. A media watchdog group complained about "the...
- Research articles 2006-11-20
- Threat to pull plug on dodgy telcos
- Comments 13 'Absolute shocker' ... Senator Stephen Conroy promises to legislate if there is no improvement in customer service. Photo: Jessica Shapiro The consumer watchdog says there will be a "zero tolerance" approach to dodgy telecommunications companies while the Federal Government has threatened a legislative crackdown after new figures showed...
- News items 2009-10-26
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch David Nicklaus column.
- By David Nicklaus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 1--MUTUAL FUND BALLOTS ARE NO LONGER SECRET WITH NEW DISCLOSURES: Is your mutual fund a lapdog of corporate management or a watchdog for shareholder rights? You can now find out. ...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- Groups File Complaint Against NTPC Over Lao Hydro Project
- Belgian business watchdog Proyecto Gato and French environmental protection group Amis de la Terre recently announced that several non-governmental organizations NGOs have filed a complaint against Electricite de France EdF, the major shareholder in the Nam Theun 2 Power Company NTPC, for breaching the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- State auditors say Lone Star bank buy improper
- SEOUL AFP — South Korean state auditors said Monday that US buyout fund Lone Star was not a qualified candidate when it acquired the then struggling Korea Exchange Bank in 2003. The Board of Audit and Inspection BAI said the country's financial watchdog had endorsed the 2003 sale of...
- Research articles 2007-03-12
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