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National Real Estate Investor
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Sarbanes-Oxley is onerous What Corporate America needs is more integrity, not more due diligence and documentation. Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley consumes time that could be spent creating shareholder value and may encourage some public companies to go private. |
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SEC Brings Proxies Online Shareholders will soon be able to find proxy statements and annual reports online, according to new voluntary rules approved this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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Has Sarbanes-Oxley Made a Dent in Corporate America's Armor? In the 12 months since it was signed by President Bush, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act has caused U.S. companies to spend heavily on compliance, altered the culture of boardrooms and boosted the business of firms that offer ethics and compliance consulting. To what end? |
The Motley Fool
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This Proxy Season, Expect A Brawl Add up shareholder anger over the backdating scandal, a slate of new rules on executive pay disclosure, increasing pressure from activist hedge funds, and more companies requiring directors to be elected by a majority shareholder vote, and a tempestuous proxy period lies ahead. |
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So "Takeover" Does Translate Foreigners are after Japanese companies -- with better governance as one result. |
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BusinessWeek
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Attack Of The Hungry Hedge Funds To hike stock prices, aggressive hedge fund managers are banding together to force changes on companies. |
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Will the SEC Protect Proxy Access? Investors of all stripes should keep an eye on next week's ruling. |
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The Price of Being Public How small-cap REITs are handling the financial squeeze from Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations. |
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Who's in Charge Here? Listening to shareholders is easy. Making sense of their concerns is not. |
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The SEC Tries to Pry Open Corporate Boards Corporations are bracing for new rules that will make it easier for dissident shareholders to nominate board members. |
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Making Corporate Housecleaning Easier in 2012 Proxy access resolutions pile up; could some corporate boards get cleaned up next year? |
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Proxy Fights 101 How shareholder skirmishes are transforming Wall Street. It's smart to understand how proxy fights work, but don't assume they're a good system for investing. Proxy battles often target struggling companies with volatile stocks. |
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Welcome to Proxy Fight Club Despite their downsides, proxy wars represent an important part of shareholder rights. |
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Pickens Nitpicks Yahoo! Billionaire investor Pickens is digging into the top brass at Yahoo! this week, after bailing on his investment in the Internet portal at a loss. |
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The Motley Fool
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Your Stocks' Secrets Investors, knowledge is power, so don't ignore a freely available source of the best-kept corporate secrets -- the proxy statement. Proxy season is upon us -- don't forget to do your homework. |
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A Quietly Outperforming Industrial With a boost from energy, SPX Corp. is riding high this quarter. |
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Sarbanes-Oxley Revisited Recent academic studies of Sarbanes-Oxley have deepened our understanding of the law's effects. |
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