Unsolved are problems in corporate and mutual fund governance and soft-dollar arrangements that strongly influence fund managers' dealings with brokers.
And that's why we have a big problem with fees, we have a big problem with mutual fund governance, we have a big problem with mutual funds participating in the governance of our industrial corporations and other kinds of corporations in the U.S. They don't take the responsibility for ownership, because that doesn't produce any returns for the owners of the management companies.
Given better-than-anticipated progress on strengthening the euro zone's rescue fund and governance, credit would shrink by just 0.6% in 2012 and the euro area could grow this year.
It is quite normal, logical, and sensible that the people who will involved in the organization, through its fund-raising and governance, will be those who care about honoring and recognizing immigrants.
At the Morningstar Investor Conference two weeks ago, emerging market fund managers emphasized the importance of corporate governance when investing overseas.
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The leaders also asked the International Monetary Fund to speed up changes in its governance to better represent the developing world as a voting bloc.
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The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the nation's largest pension fund and a leader in promoting corporate governance, said Friday it welcomed any move by the SEC that would help U.S. investors make educated decisions about their foreign exposure.
This is possible now because of the strong new international pressure against external support to rebel groups, the removal of Ntaganda, the lowered profitability of the trade in conflict minerals and the International Monetary Fund's pressure on Congo to enact governance reforms.
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".
The policy brief is being released concurrently with the first major report on the governance of geoengineering by the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative of the Royal Society, Environmental Defense Fund and TWAS (the academy of sciences for the developing world).
The mutual fund regulatory structure is generally recognized today as a model of poor corporate governance.
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The measure's supporters say that proxy votes are the most direct way to influence corporate governance, and that investors have the right to know whether a fund manager has voted in their best interests.
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Moreover, foreign fund managers are again complaining about Malaysia's lack of transparency, lack of corporate governance.
If we want to prevent more situations like Syria, we must work closely with Congress to protect or increase funding for the State Department's Conflict Stabilization Operations and the Complex Crises Fund, international organizations, transition initiatives, and programs focused on access to justice, governance and security reform, human rights and social inclusion.
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