The CCMR has recently posted a summary of its proposed "Transition Approach". This approach lays out the transitional principles, with the stated goal being to "minimize the impact of transition on market participants and their businesses".
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Activist investors are bigger and hungrier than ever. Here's how to keep them at bay.
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On March 8, 2016, the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) released its guidance on director-shareholder engagement in response to demands from investors, including activist shareholders, for increased and better dialogue with their corporate boards.
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The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has released a draft of its 2016-2017 statement of priorities? for comment. Similar to previous years, the OSC's focus remains on changing demographics including seniors and millennials and the way in which the different demographics interact in the marketplace.
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Comments on the revised consultation draft of the provincial/territorial Capital Markets Act (CMA) and the draft initial regulations (Initial Regulations and, together with the CMA, the Consultation Drafts) for the proposed Cooperative Capital Markets Regulatory System (Cooperative System), to be administered by the new Capital Markets Authority (Authority), indicate that capital markets stakeholders continue to have major concerns about the adequacy of the consultation process, the interface between the jurisdictions that will be part of the Cooperative System and those that will not, and other provisions of the Consultation Drafts.
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Corporate directors have mixed feelings about the recent surge in shareholder activism, a March 3 survey by NYSE Governance Services and Spencer Stuart found.
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Executives and boards should be prepared to address these issues with shareholders at annual meetings this year.
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Wherein we embark on a short, time-traveling leap to the end of 2016 to take a look back at what went down - or up - in the mining sector in the year that was...or soon might be.
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Facing a long decline in its business, the TSX Venture Exchange kicked off 2016 by publishing details of a major "revitalization” plan. Then it took its pledge of savings and simplification on a cross-country, town-hall tour. Audiences listened. But will the business return?
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