Where, they ask, is the discussion of America's poor shareholder rights compared with Britain's?
In some respects, yes: shareholder rights (a staple of American capitalism) are gaining ground, for example.
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"It is up to us now to help regulate the strengthening of shareholder rights, " Mr. Vogt said.
He bought small stakes in large companies and tried to invoke shareholder rights to open their books.
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Fund managers should be more formally obliged to assert themselves in exercising shareholder rights, actively intervening in underperforming companies.
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The shareholder rights plan would flood the market with newly issued shares if anyone buys more than 10% of the firm.
Many European countries use bearer share certificates rather than maintain a shareholder register, reflecting differing attitudes to shareholder rights and taxes.
More broadly, shareholder rights continue to be a weak point for Vale.
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The funds, which may invest up to 40% of their assets in domestic equities, head a campaign to strengthen and enforce shareholder rights.
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The government has already introduced some new measures that would help, such as rules to ensure more financial transparency and stronger shareholder rights.
We focus on board independence and protection of minority shareholder rights.
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The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the country's largest pension fund, had said it would vote for Apple's proposal, because it would have strengthened shareholder rights.
This morning, Netflix announced that it has adopted a poison pill shareholder rights plan as a defense against unfriendly attempts to take control of the company.
It is also an answer to decades of criticism by Western management experts who breathlessly argued that the country's business culture, from a rigid labour market to weak shareholder rights, was holding companies back.
The addition of Ackman and Roth comes after the retailer enlisted Barclays Capital and Goldman Sachs as advisors and enacted a shareholder rights plan, following the Pershing and Vornado disclosures in October.
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Colette Neuville, an influential French advocate of shareholder rights, has called on the AMF to block the family's move, arguing that it would put non-family minority shareholders at a disadvantage because the value of their shares would be reduced if a majority of the shares were locked up.
Moreover, outside investors have no control over management, and even basic shareholder voting rights are limited.
The business-software company adopted a shareholder-rights plan to fend off a proxy fight by hedge fund Elliot Associates LP.
In 2010, Ivanhoe adopted a shareholder-rights plan that allowed other investors to dilute Rio's stake if it continued to grow.
Shareholder-rights advocates argue that they give insiders the best of both worlds.
Shareholder-rights advocates have long argued that combining the roles of C.
Welcome to Vladivostok, capital of the Russian Far East, where there is unfolding a shareholder-rights drama that, even by Russia's demanding standards, is unusually robust.
Ferguson has a well-known love of racehorses -- he sued former United shareholder John Magnier over stud rights of a horse in 2003 -- but Wilkinson said his charity work is not so widely appreciated.
These include shareholdings worth at least 5% of a company's voting rights (if the shareholder is an employee) or 25% (if not).
And if George Osborne agrees with Sir Mervyn that RBS and Lloyds aren't lending enough, then the remedy remains the one it has always been and the one he loathes: he could exercise his rights as their biggest shareholder and order them to increase their appetite for risk.
The France family, which owns Nascar, is also the largest shareholder of ISC and controls the voting rights.
But a recent study by Harvard, Wharton and Stanford found that, overall, shareholder return decreases as insiders' voting rights increase.
No shareholder can control more than 20% of the voting rights.
After a rocky start, a new market launched in 2000 the Novo Mercado has led to greater shareholder democracy, ending an era of old-style corporate governance in which investors with small financial stakes monopolised voting rights in companies.
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