Mutual funds offer an easy path to diversified foreign bond exposure, and fund managers are experienced enough to go beyond government bonds into attractive corporate issues, too.
It also recommends that the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance act of 2002 be incorporated into the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, giving regulators more authority over corporate issues.
He has specific experience in the area of redevelopment finance and has worked extensively on corporate governance issues.
Working out of an office studded with time-zone clocks in Newton, Massachusetts, Stephen Davis has become an authority on corporate governance issues around the world.
The good thing about a matrix is that, at least theoretically, it provides checks and balances so that local (business unit) and global (corporate) issues are weighed against one another.
Yet companies up their chances for receiving better financing, better partnerships and a shot at being selected as a preferred customer by other firms if corporate governance issues are given importance.
The Congressional study concludes that companies with female representation on their boards of directors are more likely to be highly attentive to corporate governance issues, and that correlates with improved firm performance.
Although Democrats hit Dole hard for holding a fund raiser with former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, Bowles was also vulnerable on corporate-responsibility issues.
Mossberg has also been criticized for being too focussed on products rather than on the broader corporate and political issues that affect consumers.
Another problem is that corporate-bond issues tend to be small.
Yes, the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy is an influential organization engaging leading global CEOs in furthering the business case for corporate engagement on societal issues.
Instead of having to continually advocate for lawmakers and corporate leaders to resolves issues like the wage gap or daycare, we could just change it ourselves.
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More than 30 years ago the U.S. Department of Labor devised a mechanism for dealing with problematic conflicts of interest, governance and internal control issues within corporate pension plans.
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Even as Paulson discusses tax issues with corporate leaders Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee will be marking up a bill that calls for greater oversight of currency exchange rates.
The influx of personal devices makes the management of mobile phones and the lifecycle of mobile applications more complicated and creates security and manageability issues for corporate IT organizations.
But it also based its new criteria on issues of corporate governance: assessing the openness of a capital market, the sorts of protection offered to investors, and how effectively a market is regulated.
According to the Hay Group that specializes in compensation issues, corporate boards must assure that pay standards are fair and transparent, and that the process to assign compensation does not conflict with general employee benefit policies.
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Pitt was a founding trustee and the first president of the SEC Historical Society and participated in a wide variety of bar and continuing legal education activities to further public consideration of significant corporate and securities law issues.
Mindy regularly speaks about corporate and investor sustainability issues to high-level leaders at the New York Stock Exchange, United Nations, World Economic Forum, Clinton Global Initiative, American Accounting Association, American Bar Association and more than 100 Fortune 500 firms.
Corporate plans: The Department of Labor, the agency charged with regulating corporate pensions, generally lacks knowledge of the money management and securities industries, has offered little meaningful guidance to corporate sponsors on these issues and has been even less effective in investigating wrongdoing and enforcing the laws.
It can be argued that the precious metals may have backed off anyway, even without the seeming progress on debt issues and good corporate earnings reports.
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However, no such help will be coming for the thousands of bond issues backed by corporate sponsors or a home builder with empty lots and incomplete infrastructures.
It added that whilst the former managing director had made efforts to reduce conflict and improve behaviour, there had been no consistent corporate focus on addressing the issues.
Not known to be rapid adopters of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues, conservative British pension funds have tended to lag behind their German and some of their American counterparts.
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Employees also can download thousands of programs on their own, which can be a security nightmare for a corporate network and cause compatibility issues when the company wants to update operating systems and apps.
Their database is composed of Treasury issues, federal agency issues, mortgages, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, money market funds and asset-backed securities.
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Without the prospect of war with Iraq, the Rebublicans would have found themselves on the defensive about other issues, such as corporate scandals and the economy, to a much greater degree than they have so far.
Corporate taxpayers frequently encounter recurring tax issues, that, although they are not part of the same uncertain tax position, the recurring issues result in uncertain tax positions that must be reported in each year in which they arise.
His failure to keep disagreements within the walls of the boardroom contributed just as much or more to an atmosphere of distrust as did the company's decision to snoop on him, says Nell Minnow, editor of the Corporate Library, which monitors governance issues.
Amid the biggest legal crisis to rock the corporate world, News Corp serves as a valuable lesson for all companies on such critical issues as director independence, reputational preservation, and responsible corporate officer liability, among others.
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