She still provides shareholder information for a mutual fund company to help pay the rent.
Unlike our billionaires rankings, which highly individual fortunes, Japan's Top 40 includes numerous family fortunes. the list was compiled using shareholder and financial information obtained from the families and individuals themselves, stock exchanges and analysts.
Japan's Commercial Code bans companies from paying off such extortionists, who buy shares then threaten to disrupt shareholder meetings or disclose damaging information.
One reason funds such as Millennium have been able to get stock is that companies have been required by securities rules to disclose financial information when their shareholder base exceeds 500.
He pointed out that, under Russian law, every shareholder has the right to this information.
Judge Sullivan separately denied a request by shareholder Brian Gralnick that pressed Apple to disclose more information about how the company grants stock awards to executives.
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On top of that are civil fraud provisions, which require companies to disclose information that "would significantly alter the total mix of information available to a reasonable investor or shareholder, " Fahy says.
Outside investigators may uncover information that could trigger lawsuits and further erode shareholder value.
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Retirement Plans, which asks the court to decide whether shareholder lawyers have to prove at the beginning of a case whether information they say a company withheld from investors was material or not.
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Facebook will be required to make its financial information public by April, because the company will cross the 500-shareholder limit by the end of this year.
All of this is too much information to be squeezed into a soundbite or a headline, but as a shareholder, you want to know what is going on with the business.
In several cases it is hard to know whether these CEOs are less "greedy" or more shareholder-friendly than their American counterparts, because their companies won't provide the information needed to know.
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