We’ll be in San Diego next week for the Hedge Fund Activism and Shareholder Value Summit. If you’re going too, and you’d like to catch up, we’d love to hear from you. You can reach us at greenbackd [at] gmail [dot] com. We’ll be posting intermittently next week, but we’ll be back to our regular [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Corporate Governance’
Hedge Fund Activism and Shareholder Value Summit
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Catalysts, Greenbackd, Value Investment, tagged Activist investment, Corporate Governance, Greenbackd on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SEC considers proposal to allow shareholders to nominate directors on proxy statements
Posted in Activist Investors, Stocks, tagged Activist investment, Corporate Governance on May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bloomberg reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will consider a proposal to allow shareholders to nominate directors on proxy statements. At present, shareholders must distribute a separate ballot listing dissident nominees, which makes the process too expensive for most investors and means only large activist investors like Carl Icahn or Bill Ackman have [...]
North! to North Dakota. We’re going north. The rush is on.
Posted in Activist Investors, Carl Icahn, tagged Activist investment, Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Now a baker’s dozen in North Dakota, footnoted.org’s Michelle Leder tracks the small, but growing number of companies whose shareholders are requesting via the annual proxy process that their companies relocate to North Dakota: Last week, 11 companies, including Exxon Mobil (EOM), Southwest (LUV), and Amgen (AMGN), were on the list. But since Friday, [...]
Ackman’s TGT slate calls for “universal ballot”
Posted in About, Activist Investors, Pershing Square Capital Management, Stocks, William A. Ackman, tagged Corporate Governance, Pershing Square Capital, Proxy Voting, Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT), William A. Ackman on April 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In Ackman and Target Tangle in Ballot Brawl, The New York Times’ Dealbook has coverage of the “universal ballot” spat between William A. Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital and Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT). A candidate on Pershing Square’s ticket, Ronald J. Gilson, who is a law professor at Stanford University and an expert in corporate governance, has [...]
Carl Icahn says that financial crisis caused by laws that disenfranchised shareholders
Posted in Activist Investors, Carl Icahn, tagged Activist investment, Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In an opinion piece for the New York Times titled, We’re Not the Boss of A.I.G., Carl Icahn argues that the legal “devices” that disenfranchise shareholders “can be found at the root of today’s financial crisis:” The legal landscape is filled with devices designed by state legislators and courts to prevent shareholders from influencing how [...]
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