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Members of Institutional Investor's All-Canada Executive Team discuss the biggest challenges facing their businesses - and how they plan to rise above them.
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While the stock market has boomed, energy stocks have not. Indeed, they have been the worst-performing sector over the last decade. Moreover, energy has dropped from 15% in 1990 to only 5% of the S&P 500 sector weightings in 2019. This is particularly ironic, since U.S. oil and gas production has boomed over the same period, making the United States the world's largest producer of oil and gas - and making the country virtually self-sufficient.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published CSA Consultation Paper 51-405 Consideration of an Access Equals Delivery Model for Non-Investment Fund Reporting Issuers (the consultation paper), which solicits views on the appropriateness of introducing an "access equals delivery" model in the Canadian market. Under this model, delivery of a document would be effected by the issuer alerting investors that the document is publicly available on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) and the issuer's website.
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In this year's Oil and Gas Review, the Alberta Securities Commission highlights the continuing constraints facing reporting issuers and ongoing reporting concerns - the lack of public financing and its impact on reserve estimations taking centre stage.
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In this article, representatives of The Conference Board and Rutgers Law School discuss the current phenomenon of director engagement with shareholders.
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The Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) has released its 2019 guide on best practices for information circular disclosure. The guide includes updated guidance on say-on-pay, director continuing education, the independence of the board chair, reporting past voting results and the chair's letter to shareholders. In addition, CCGG provides new guidance on using non-GAAP measures in executive compensation.
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The standards-setting body has taken steps to update its guidelines when topics - like human capital management - emerge.
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It was an ambitious goal when it was set in 2010: triple the percentage of female board directors on corporate boards by 2020. But as this new year dawned, more than three out of every ten directors - 30.6%, to be exact - at the 250 largest publicly traded firms in the UK are women. The goal now? Keep up the effort without a highly publicized campaign.
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