This has prompted predictions that regulators may end up treating such entities not as a single shareholder, but as a collection of individual investors.
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Anne Simpson, head of corporate governance at Calpers, the Californian state pension fund, urged Apple to "keep calm and carry on" with the changes it had proposed, and not to be swayed by "side conversations with a single shareholder".
Joseph Grundfest, a professor at Stanford Law School and a former SEC commissioner, points out that the rule in question states very clearly that a fund such as the one Goldman has in mind should be treated as a single shareholder.
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It is often in the interests of a single large shareholder to keep a close eye on managers.
The investment vehicle being created by Goldman is intended to pool investors' money to create the legal effect of a single new shareholder in Facebook, since each special-purpose vehicle counts as one shareholder of record.
The investment vehicle being created by Goldman is intended solely to pool investors' money to create the legal effect of a single new shareholder in Facebook, since each special-purpose vehicle counts as one shareholder of record.
Yeung is Birmingham's largest single shareholder with a 29.9% stake.
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By the mid-1990s Chrysler had survived near bankruptcy and a failed hostile buy-out launched by Kirk Kerkorian, a corporate raider who was its biggest single shareholder.
Among the boosters of such companies is Credit Suisse, an investment bank, which in early 2007 launched an index of publicly listed family firms, saying they have proved to be more profitable than their widely held peers (those in which no single shareholder owns more than a 10% stake).
That is why, rather than reacting to each thing in front of their nose in a random fashion, CEOs derive a single abstract strategy from an analysis of all the information available about the company, the market, the suppliers, and the competitive and economic environments, organized toward a single purpose: Maximization of long-term shareholder wealth.
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has had a tough year amid heightened competition in the single-serve industry and intense shareholder scrutiny.
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On Thursday, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced it took a 132.4 million stake in Kraft Foods, making Berkshire the largest single shareholder.
But then a French private-equity firm, PAI Partners, suddenly appeared as Atos Origin's largest single shareholder two weeks ago, and said it backed the management's strategy.
But just like democracies, a broad stock-holding public will get it right more than wrong, even if no single citizen or shareholder can tell you why.
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