Not another meeting
IROs are likely to regard annual general meetings (AGMs) as more of a chore than an eagerly anticipated event. Some disasters...
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The simple life
Douglas Ian Shaw is a man with a mantra: ‘keep it simple’. It’s a good rule too, enabling him to keep up with his varied career...
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Northern exposure
Canada may be one of the more placid and well-ordered places on the planet, but the country is in the midst of a sharp debate over...
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The root of all good
In mid-October 2001 the Wall Street Journal reported on a special purpose entity (SPE) of Enron that was experiencing financial...
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The enforcer
The SEC has been busy this year, pursuing options backdaters, launching new compensation disclosure rules and e-proxies...
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Glass houses
Activist investing is now commonplace. Aided by regulatory advances and a changing attitude to ownership rights, shareholders are...
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Is plain English too hard to understand?
Writing this column is a bit like being caught in a time warp in an episode of Star Trek. You’ll be reading it in August, even...
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The forgotten investors
The expansion of the rights of equity investors in US public companies carries the potential of substantial risk for bondholders...
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Conference call
Colorado Springs began its life as an urban center known for its open-area spaces in 1871, the height of the American gold rush...
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The director merry-go-round
Os are still getting the axe, and lots of them. By Booz Allen Hamilton’s count of 2,500 global corporations, 14.3 percent of CEOs...
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