Sentences with phrase «give shareholders power»

One boon for shareholders for next year's annual meeting: SEC rules that went into effect earlier this week will allow shareholders to change company's governance procedures when it comes to director nominations, which could give shareholders power to nominate directors.

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Last week it followed with another announcement that would give it great goodwill with conservationists and improve its credibility with shareholders — acquisition of a modest share of one of the world's leading developers of wave energy power systems.

The power behind Fink's threat to enforce his views hinges, in part, on the standard of one share, one vote — that shareholders» voting power is based on the number of shares they own in a given company rather than the votes of entrenched founders or early investors.

Because the founders currently hold majority - voting rights, the plan does not require that shareholders give their consent to the dilution of their future voting power.

The WVR give greater power to founding shareholders even with minority shareholding.

But what if the answer to a deficit of corporate legitimacy was to give shareholders even more — not less — power?

This way the shareholders can retain their level of control in the company without having to go out and purchase more shares just for the power of the vote that will give the shareholder more clout at the board level for his / her interests in corporate activities.

Wenger has been given so much power to manage the team the way he wants to; even the shareholders seems to be scared of sacking the man.

Finally, these Wall Street reforms will give shareholders new power in the financial system.

We clearly need to give more powers to long term shareholders, reduce the voting rights of short term speculators, reduce the power of CEOs on boards, and increase the power and independence of non-executive board members.

Christine Berry, policy officer at FairPensions, said: «Government moves to give shareholders greater powers are to be applauded.

The union's general secretary, Len McCluskey said: «The government should strongly consider giving shareholders greater legal powers to question and curb these excessive remuneration packages.»

All of these attorneys general expanded their power at least partially on the basis of a single 1921 statute known as the Martin Act, which gives the New York AG vastly greater latitude in prosecuting financial crimes against shareholders.

Since many small shareholders simply don't vote, that will give more power to institutional and activist shareholders who do.

It is time to remove the many devices that managements use to entrench their power, and give shareholders real power.

Thus, even a simple application of voting power analysis has profound implications — given the choice, Quicksilver can buffer its loss of influence by a whopping 13 % by distributing its shares to smaller shareholders, rather than selling a lump sum to Baupost.

The power of proxy access, now instituted at a number of major corporations, has given shareholders additional abilities to influence a company's strategic direction.

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While there is some hoo - ha on the subject, giving some additional power to shareholders may have effect in the short term but not in the longer term.