Securities regulators are taking a hard look at whether companies should be allowed to pay investment dealers for securing favourable shareholder votes.
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Canada's securities regulators have published a staff notice discussing the quality of disclosure by real estate reporting issuers, focusing on distribution disclosure and non-GAAP financial measures.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published CSA Staff Notice 52-329 Distribution Disclosures and Non-GAAP Financial Measures in the Real Estate Industry. The notice details findings of a recent review and provides additional guidance on disclosure expectations relating to distributions and non-GAAP financial measures for real estate reporting issuers.
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Continuous professional development is essential to keep up to speed with the skills IROs need in a fast-changing market environment – and the leading IR associations are furnishing the essential tools and certifications they need.
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This notice outlines certain issues that staff of the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have identified with respect to the use of soliciting dealer arrangements. Staff are publishing this notice for a 60-day comment period to better understand these arrangements to aid the CSA in assessing whether any additional guidance or rules in respect of those arrangements would be appropriate. In addition to any general comments, we also invite comments on the specific questions set out at the end of the notice.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) recently published Staff Notice 51-353 – Update on CSA Consultations Paper 51-404 Considerations for Reducing Regulatory Burden for Non-Investment Fund Reporting Issuers (Notice), which sets out a number of upcoming CSA policy projects intended to reduce the regulatory burden associated with capital raising in public markets (i.e., prospectus-related requirements) and the ongoing costs (i.e., continuous disclosure requirements) applicable to non-investment fund reporting issuers.
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New research from the University of Waterloo shows that Canadian small businesses are important- and often overlooked- drivers of sustainability and the green economy.
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