The Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) today announced that National and Chapter professional development events will be available to investor relations professionals across Canada through live and archived audio webcasts. This provides investor relations professionals with access to capital market and investor relations experts from across Canada at a time that is convenient for them.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today released its fifth annual Enforcement Report that outlines how securities regulators are actively working to protect investors and the integrity of Canada's capital markets. As securities fraud can cause tremendous harm to investors and Canada's capital markets, this year's report highlights the CSA's fraud enforcement efforts.
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The Key Proxy Vote Survey is an annual survey of the discretionary voting practices
of investment managers and proxy voting services that vote the proxies of Canadian
companies owned by Canadian pension plans and other institutional investors.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its Final Report on The Proxy Advisor Industry. The report contains an analysis of the responses received to its March 2012 consultation and sets out the next steps for ESMA and the industry.
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"Is there a way to provide more robust disclosure that doesn’t interfere with management’s responsibility to be the original source of information?"
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Professor Anita Anand, University of Toronto, states that "cross-country and Canada-specific research demonstrates a statistically significant and positive relationship between corporate governance measures and firm value". She also sets out the academic literature upon which she is relying to make that statement and other positive statements about the value of governance.
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Crowdfunding for equity is one of those ideas that appeals to a lot of people. It has 'crowd' appeal, you could say. Why not allow a great number of individuals (thousands) to each invest a little bit of money to fund projects that would otherwise not get funded? Especially projects like rooftop solar projects or similar ventures which improve society as a whole? Isn’t this a great idea?
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The Canadian Society of Corporate Secretaries (CSCS) announces the launch of the Excellence in Governance Awards/Prix d'excellence en gouvernance (EGs). The inaugural awards ceremony will be held on August 18, 2013 in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the opening dinner of the CSCS 15th annual conference.
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