Five years after the maelstrom of September 2008, global finance is safer. But still not safe enough.
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But not in the popular colloquial sense of the term. Forcing companies to disclose the gap between CEO pay and rank-and-file compensation is about as dumb as it gets.
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Shareholder activism used to be just a nuisance that arose during proxy season, involving a group of contentious investors who tended to target smaller or less established companies.
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The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) has entered into a settlement agreement with Anthony Lambert, the former CEO of Daylight Energy Ltd., following allegations by the ASC that Mr. Lambert violated provisions of the Securities Act (Alberta) relating to insider trading and tipping.
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A group of 44 investors representing about $5.6 trillion in assets has written to the Securities and Exchange Commission to express concern that new disclosure requirements for oil, gas and mining companies could be rolled back.
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Congressional leaders, in their rage against ever-rising executive compensation and income inequality, have created more murkiness.
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Transparency is great unless maybe you're a multi-million-earning CEO whose employees are making minimum wage.
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Stock options are on the verge of extinction.
The once-popular form of pay, which for decades enriched senior executives and sometimes turned secretaries into millionaires, is almost disappearing as companies gravitate toward restricted stock awards.
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Activist investors are making waves in the stock market, but their game has changed. Instead of taking on sluggish, poorly managed businesses, they want to restructure many of the world's most profitable, best-managed companies.
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