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The Globe and Mail - January 2, 2013
When Bill Ackman of Pershing Square came knocking at the door of Canadian Pacific Railway with a request for two board seats, it struck many as a move doomed to failure.
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Canadian Coalition for Good Governance - December 27, 2012
The 2013 Executive Compensation Principles provides the latest CCGG thoughts on designing an effective executive compensation program.
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Chartered Accountants of Canada - December 20, 2012
While investors seek to regain trust in financial reporting, some say that the auditing profession is at a crossroads and that now is the time to take stock of what audit can do to enhance its value in the public interest.
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Traders Magazine - December 19, 2012
At a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee in Washington yesterday, exchange officials cast aspersions on alternative trading systems, or dark pools, while ATS executives criticized the regulatory structure supporting exchanges.
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Traders Magazine - December 19, 2012
Representatives from exchanges, brokerages, and money management firms on Nov. 9 called for a review of the hundreds of exchange order types in usage. Any such examination could mushroom into a broader review of market structure, they said.
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CFO - December 19, 2012
It seems that every few years someone, often from academia, passionately asserts that some form of stakeholder value should be the preferable corporate focus over shareholder value.
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Stikeman Elliott LLP - December 19, 2012
The TSX and TSX-V issued a joint consultation paper earlier this week intended to identify the potential risks associated with listing emerging market issuers and provide preliminary guidance to issuers with respect to applicable listing considerations.
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Traders Magazine - December 17, 2012
Once an algorithm has reached its profitability potential in U.S. equities markets, its owner can create another successful algorithm.
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Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP - December 17, 2012
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have approved the final changes to rules permitting the use of 'notice-and-access' for proxy solicitation. The changes will become effective on February 11, 2013, for meetings held on or after March 1, 2013.
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Advanced Trading - December 17, 2012
Next year, the buy side is also likely to be impacted by intense pressure on management fees, an issue has been developing for some time but in 2012 seemed to reach a tipping point.
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Institutional Investor - December 13, 2012
Recent research papers have disagreed over the effect of dark pools on price discovery.
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McMillan LLP - December 13, 2012
Canadian Securities Administrators ("CSA") recently announced that, effective February 11, 2013, the rules governing communication between reporting issuers (other than investment funds) and their securityholders will change.
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Torys LLP - December 12, 2012
Canadian securities regulators have adopted new rules permitting annual
financial statements, management's discussion and analysis and meeting
circulars to be posted on public companies' websites instead of being
mailed to shareholders.
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Kaye Scholer LLP - December 12, 2012
Social media postings by officers of public companies can form the basis of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement actions.
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CFO - December 12, 2012
International financial reporting standards could become more popular, forcing the SEC to listen to foreign standards-setters.
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CFO - December 11, 2012
Research from a leading law firm reveals four kinds of company crises that can make a share price fall immediately or in the long term.
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Mercer - December 5, 2012
Mercer, Stikeman Elliott LLP and the Generation Foundation (the philanthropic arm of Generation Investment Management) announced today the launch of a collaborative global research project exploring the concept of loyalty rewards (i.e. loyalty dividends, warrants or additional voting rights) and related instruments designed to reward corporate shareholders for retaining their shares for a specified number of months or years. The project responds to concerns that 'short-termism' in the context of economic and corporate decision-making may be damaging the way that companies are managed.
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