The 2013 Executive Compensation Principles provides the latest CCGG thoughts on designing an effective executive compensation program.
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is about to pay visits to a wide range of alternative trading systems, in an attempt to make sure they are properly handling customers' orders.
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With macroeconomic uncertainty lessening, but with companies still hesitant to part with cash cushions, the time is ripe for shareholder activists to stir the pot.
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The Ontario Securities Commission ("OSC") is actively taking steps to make capital raising easier for start-ups. In late 2012, the OSC published Staff Consultation Paper 45-710, seeking feedback on proposed new prospectus exemptions in Ontario. In a recent announcement, the OSC has extended the deadline for submitting comments to March 8, 2013.
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As recently announced in a Corporate Finance Bulletin and Notice to Issuers (the "Bulletin"), the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSX-V") has extended until April 30, 2013 three temporary measures (the "Relief Measures") designed to provide relief to issuers from certain pricing requirements relating to private placement financings.
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Study by MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group indicates more companies are profiting with sustainable business models.
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The ongoing proliferation of insider trading cases at hedge funds points to the need for more transparency into investment decisions and trading processes. One way to stop the pattern is for hedge funds to form internal control groups that scrutinize the links between investment themes and material non-public information.
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In the wake of the high-profile 2012 Canadian Pacific Railway proxy contest and subsequent public battles involving RONA and Agrium erupting later in the year, it is clear that proxy contests have taken centre stage in the Canadian corporate landscape.
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