CIRI's 2016 Annual Investor Relations Conference - Co-Chairs Announced CIRI is pleased to announce the Co-Chairs for the 2016 Annual Conference: Melanie and Roberto are ready to begin planning a fantastic Conference in historic Quebec City. Stay tuned for more updates as the program develops. Early bird registration is now open! Register today to save up to $200 off the registration fee. Have budget dollars remaining for 2015? Put it to good use by networking with peers and learning IR best practices. Click here to register for the conference. CIRI's 29th Annual Investor Relations Conference June 12-14, 2016, Fairmont le Chateau Frontenac, Quebec City We look forward to seeing you there! | Complete Article |
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Top Stories Crowdfunding in Canada and the United States Canadian and U.S. companies will be able to raise capital through crowdfunding beginning in 2016. Crowdfunding is already established as a way of raising money via donations from groups of people over the Internet to fund various projects and ventures. | View Original | It's Easier to Go "Overboard": ISS Amends Director Overboarding Policy Today Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) announced that, effective February 1, 2017, it will reduce the number of public company boards on which a director may serve before it recommends that shareholders withhold votes from that director under its amended Overboarded Directors Policy (the Amended Policy). A director who serves on too many public company boards is said to be "overboarded". | View Original | The Cannibalized Company As stock buybacks reach historic levels, signs that corporate America is undermining itself. . | View Original | Society Warns ISS That Overboarding Policy Change Will Hurt Women And Minority Directors Recently, I criticized ISS' proposed changes to its policy on "overboarding". Therefore, I was pleased to see that I wasn't a lone voice crying in the wilderness. The Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals also submitted a comment letter to ISS. The Society echoed my observation that ISS had provided no evidentiary support for its proposed changes. | View Original | Expansion of Crowdfunding in Canada - The Doors Open Wider After a long wait and much anticipation, securities regulators in five Canadian provinces have announced a new crowdfunding regime. It includes two components, a crowdfunding prospectus exemption and a registration framework for funding portals. This new capital raising regime will be available in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. | View Original | Reporting Alert: Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act The Government of Canada has proclaimed into force the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (the Act). The Act requires entities engaged in the commercial development of oil, gas and minerals to disclose payments made to all levels of government, both in Canada and internationally. This CPA Canada Reporting Alert highlights the basic requirements of the Act, considers possible business implications, and suggests an action plan to implement the Act. | View Original | SWFs: Activist Investors or Passive Stock Pickers? Three academics investigate whether the world's largest investors use their influence to enact change in the companies they hold. | View Original | What to Expect When the CEO-Employee Pay Gap Goes Public Companies may have reason to fear employees' reactions after disclosing the ratio between CEOs' pay and median salaries starting in 2017. | View Original | Shareholders Think They Own the Company - They Are Wrong So whose is the business? No one's, just like the river Thames. | View Original |