At Telecom Italia in April, minority shareholders put forward a list of alternative directors, which won 20% of the votes.
According to a 2007 study by Corporate Board Member and PricewaterhouseCoopers, directors rate the community and activist shareholders as eighth and ninth in a list of nine most important constituencies they serve.
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The expectation is that once both companies get their capital requirements squared away they will have lots of excess earnings to deploy elsewhere-and returning capital to shareholders would be at the top of the list.
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Returning capital to shareholders via dividends has certainly been high on the list.
The list goes on, encompassing both individual shareholders and other institutional investors.
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Last week a top banker and the chairwoman of the country's biggest glass exporter became the latest in a growing list of executives arrested for stealing from shareholders of privatised companies.
But the list of losers is pretty long: other shareholders, stranded travelers and tax collectors.
Fit every item on the Big List into one of three columns tasks that benefit Employees, Shareholders, or Customers.
But the Trend Micro spokesman did not answer why Eva Chen is not listed among the largest shareholders in the company, when it appears that she should be part of that list.
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Notably absent from the list were some of the highest-profile names attached to the bank, such as shareholders Mahmoud Karzai, one of the Afghan president's brothers, and Hassan Fahim, a brother of the country's first Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim.
The average high performer on our list has been expanding earnings at 28% a year and returning 20% annualized gains to shareholders over the past five years.
The list includes those who are leading the biggest publicly traded companies, who have to answer to shareholders and carry all the responsibilities of running a business listed on a major exchange.
Those claims were laid out in greater detail Monday as William Lerach , the lead attorney for Enron shareholders, released a 500-page amended civil complaint adding nine investment banks and two law firms to the list of defendants, which already included Andersen and Duncan.
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