Add the publicly traded company to the endangered species list.
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The ICD's new guide to director-shareholder engagement is more than a helpful how-to. In encouraging Canadian boards to initiate dialogue with shareholders, it also signals a shift from defence to offence. With directors no longer back on their heels, where do meetings with shareholders go next?
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As companies in our energy economy struggle for survival, everything is on the table. That's also why there's a strong case to be made for continuing to invest in investor relations.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) recently released Consultation Paper 33-404 Proposals to Enhance the Obligations of Advisers, Dealers and Representatives Toward their Clients (Consultation Paper), which considers a number of reforms regarding the client-registrant relationship. If implemented, these changes may significantly raise the standard for registrants.
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The SEC staff has released updated Compliance Disclosure and Interpretations regarding Regulation G/non-GAAP financial measures. Non-GAAP measures have been under attack in recent SEC speeches and media articles and now there are updated parameters surrounding their usage.
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The Securities Act (Ontario) (OSA) is expected to be amended to include a prohibition on recommending the purchase or sale of securities of an issuer where the person or company making the recommendation is in a "special relationship" with the issuer and has knowledge of a material fact or material change with respect to such issuer that has not been generally disclosed.
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Institutional investors lean on retailers to disclose people metrics and plan to take on other industries. But how useful will the information prove to be?
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Does female membership on corporate boards impact mergers and acquisitions? As the percentage of females on boards of America's largest companies has risen from 15 percent in 2005 to 20 percent in 2015, the question is relevant to today's decision makers.
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Small and mid-cap firms face intensified burden to get the company message across.
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Chief executive officers of S&P 500 companies on average made 335 times more money than U.S. rank-and-file workers last year, down from a multiple of 373 in 2014, according to a union study released on Tuesday.
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