One of CME's big shareholders is Starr International, run by AIG's former boss, Hank Greenberg.
Three of the four firms have parents or big shareholders in cash-strapped southern Europe.
The contrast with the view on the board and among many big shareholders could not be greater.
Astra's big shareholders are aware of Mr Mogren's abrasive nature, but have preferred to judge him by results.
Foreigners have bought a number of them, reducing the risk of imprudent loans to big shareholders or their golfing buddies.
Other big shareholders in Local World will be the Yattendon group - the current owner of Iliffe - and Trinity Mirror.
This matters because of the third, and most difficult, challenge that Mr Trahar faces: to win the trust of big shareholders.
Nor is there much pressure from big shareholders to increase profits: the cross-shareholdings of the keiretsu come with an implicit non-aggression pact.
What big shareholders really want is for Anglo to become a leaner mining company like such rivals as Rio Tinto or Billiton.
But he has at least three big shareholders snapping at his heels.
The new code calls for a senior independent director to join regular management meetings with big shareholders and report back to the board.
The other problems have much to do with the fraught relationship between Mr Rothschild and the Bakrie family, also big shareholders of Bumi PLC.
They are also big shareholders in the trust companies themselves.
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Renault has faced no such meddling: Nissan's big shareholders, such as Yamaichi Securities, Industrial Bank of Japan and Fuji Bank, were either bust or in too much of a mess to interfere.
The distribution of power between shareholders remains highly skewed in France, however: 68% of the largest 200 companies have some form of double voting rights that allow big shareholders to wield disproportionate influence.
And, even though it is Deutsche's annual meeting tomorrow - and in spite of a "get on with it" letter to the board from some big shareholders organised by Hermes Equity Ownership Services - there is no sign of white smoke.
Other big shareholders include T.
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Strikingly, the CBI - which represents the interests of big companies - and the ABI, which represents the interests of some big shareholders, have both told Mr Cable that they think the threshold for victory in a remuneration vote should be the conventional one of 50% plus one vote.
Usually the big institutional shareholders and brokerage firms vote huge blocks of shares and what the retail investor--that's you--has to say doesn't matter.
Other big Japanese shareholders may yet come to Mitsubishi's rescue, but given the bloated state of the global auto industry, that would be a mistake.
Big institutional shareholders are likely to be quite pleased as well.
Well, that happened at Barclays: a majority of Barclays' mainstream big British shareholders - pension funds and life insurance companies - appear to have voted against the bank's reuneration report, or how it paid its executives last year and what it would plan to pay them in future years.
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As he said to me yesterday, he is concerned that the current wave of protest votes against excessive executive pay could turn out to be a passing fad - and he therefore wants a constitutional change that would lead to a permanent transformation of big institutional shareholders into properly informed and engaged proprietors.
Yes some of the money flows to former shareholders, but in big, liquid stocks those former shareholders are also likely to be current shareholders.
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The latest sharp increase is absolutely a big deal for shareholders because in 2009, IP had slashed the dividend by 90% to 10 cents a share due to the economic downturn.
But EDF was abandoned at the altar on August 1st, after two big British Energy shareholders decided that, in light of the likely future price of power, its offer was too low.
In return for accepting junior status in the merger, he obtained a big premium for Chrysler shareholders.
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