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The Motley Fool April 14, 2004 Bill Mann	Dual-Class Shares, Second-Class Investors There is a separate, non-traded class of stock that receives 10 votes for each common stock. This means that the non-traded stock shareholders, including the CEO, can dictate terms at the company far in excess of their financial stake.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004	Investors Fight Back From the Netherlands to South Korea, corporate boards are taking major steps to improve shareholder rights in the wake of financial scandals.
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Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2004 Hamid R. Moghadam	Value of Good Governance Every public REIT should have a strong board that is independent and has some skin in the game that ensures the board members' interests are well aligned with those of shareholders.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Risk, Rot, and the Road to Recovery It's high time shareholders demanded better corporate governance from boards.
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The Motley Fool April 28, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Mutual Funds Pushing for Good Governance Many fund families are supporting reforms for corporate America.
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Investment Advisor January 2006 Kathleen M. McBride	Many Happy Returns Stratton Growth Fund has displayed a disciplined approach to all-cap value investing that has outperformed for decades.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 Ann Therese Palmer	Watching the Insiders An interview with Nell Minow, editor of The Corporate Library, a research group that evaluates corporate governance policies, on why a rep should consider a company's corporate governance when deciding which stocks to purchase for a client.
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Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2005 Matthew Bechard	Earning Praise Publicly traded real estate companies have become the pillars of good governance. However, while total returns and dividend yields are easily quantifiable numbers with direct bearings on shareholder interest, corporate governance is not so easily measured.
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The Motley Fool March 8, 2005 Dave Marino-Nachison	Companies Rewarded for Good Behavior Does good corporate governance lead to market outperformance? Perhaps. And a few years of market outperformance might go a long way toward helping managers, not to mention investors, fret about compliance costs a bit less.
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The Motley Fool July 15, 2009 Chris Jones	Does Good Governance Make Great Stocks? Reemphasizing the importance of shareholder rights.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 David Henry	Mutual Funds: Tossing Out The Rubber Stamp A new SEC rule that takes effect next year will require mutual funds to disclose how they vote on proxies for the stocks they own. The rule is intended to keep funds from siding with management to gain 401(k) business. How will this affect corporate governance?
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