Today the Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI), Canada's national association representing investor relations professionals, announced the 2016 CIRI Fellows.
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TSX is proposing new rules for listed companies on security-based compensation arrangements and website postings. Comments on the proposals are due by June 27, 2016.
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A guide to CIRI's June 12-14 conference in Québec City
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Inc. (CGI) to renew the CSA National Systems.
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The nation's capital is center stage for the latest round of debates as to the impact of shareholder activism on American business. With the introduction of the Brokaw Act by four Democratic senators in March, followed by the announcement in May of a new D.C.-based lobbying organization formed by a bipartisan group of prominent activists, the long-running controversy over the unprecedented influence of shareholder activism has officially reached Washington.
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Forget last year's doom and gloom prognosis regarding Canadian venture capital and deal activity. According to the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA), Q1 2016 saw venture capital investments in Canada hit a record high of $838 million, nearly double Q1 2015, despite the slowdown south of the border in U.S. venture capital funding.
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Why culture, not compliance, is the key to making diversity stick - and to helping companies realize its full potential.
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The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) released last month the report on its cyber risk coordination efforts. The goal of the report is to provide an overview of the regulatory issues and challenges faced by various segments of the securities markets, in particular reporting issuers, market intermediaries and asset managers, and of the various frameworks and practices adapted by members of the IOSCO as the threat of cyber-attacks continues to grow.
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During the past few months, members of the SEC staff have been foreshadowing a renewed focus on enforcement of reporting of financial metrics and the use of "non-GAAP" financial measures by companies in the capital raising process, in quarterly earnings releases and on analyst calls. This renewed focus is leading to new policy statements on the regulatory front, and we expect it to lead to new enforcement actions, which could also impact risk in civil litigation.
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The challenges of the job are so great that it may not be reasonable to expect one person to do it all well, EY research suggests.
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CEOs at the biggest companies got a 4.5 percent pay raise last year. That's almost double the typical American worker's, and a lot more than investors earned from owning their stocks - a big fat zero.
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