Sentences with phrase «public corporations»

In the period 1988 - 2007, moreover, dual class firms held more or less steady at approximately seven percent of the total number of public corporations.

Behind Door # 1, public corporations with record high debt loads will be rolling over obligations and «refinancing» them at higher borrowing terms.

They create a common single standard applicable to public corporations on which shareholders can rely.

At issue is the taxation of the roughly 95 percent of American businesses that are not public corporations.

A loss - making public corporation has now been transformed into one of the top 100 British companies.

Unlike the last Labour Government, this Government has shown the steel to stop turning a blind eye to this supposedly public corporation.

With today's increased regulations on data, many public corporations have very rigid processes for employment screening.

There may be less information available on the financial condition of issuers of municipal securities than for public corporations.

The same can not be said of most public corporations in Canada, much less the private ones.

The author, Christopher Jones, points out that stock owners already have exposure to real estate as large public corporations own most of the commercial real estate in the U.S. Given the short history of REITs, he is not convinced that they provide «meaningful» diversification and points out that home owners already have enough real estate in their household assets.

MLPs are different from public corporations in their tax treatment and corporate structure.

On Saturday, June 28, 2014, Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla signed into law the Puerto Rico Public Corporation Debt Enforcement and Recovery Act (the «Act»).

A Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP) is an investment service offered by public corporations that allows existing shareowners to reinvest dividends into purchasing additional shares or fractional shares on the dividend payment date.

According to Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) in Rockville, Md., at least 60 proxy initiatives are in the works by shareholders at major public corporations who seek to end what they see as executive compensation abuses.

The largest portion of the cash (20 %) should be placed in Canadian public corporations or indexes, followed by 16 % in real estate or rental housing, according to the respondents.

The TPA is a self - sustaining public corporation owned by the City of Toronto.

Facebook's unique position in the global communications infrastructure makes it different from any other public corporation.

In the second, unlike public corporations where the owners of the business are dispersed and relatively powerless, the condottieri is elected by his employees.

What are the requirements to be a director of a major public corporation, where you are required to oversee and approve complex financial statements, compensation packages, business risk appetite, internal controls and regulatory compliance?

Of course, that would mean putting some legal restrictions on the predatory business practices of large multinational public corporations where workers are considered «human resources» to be used to maximize profits regardless of the social costs, which I believe many, perhaps most, Conservatives — both religious and secular — oppose.

But it is now possible, as has been found in Britain and elsewhere, to float public corporations so that they become the property of millions of small stockholders.

Other Prime Ministerial powers include those to recommend the appointment of key figures, including peers, religious leaders, top judges and military heads as well as the chairs of public corporations such as the BBC.

Amtrak, a for - profit public corporation run and funded in part by the federal government, owns Penn Station and Albany and Trenton spend tens of millions of dollars each year to rent concourses for their state and local train systems.

The Toronto Parking Authority is a self - sustaining public corporation owned by the City of Toronto.

ISS tracked 1,042 shareholder proposals at public corporations during the 2003 proxy season, which gives us total corporate expenditures on shareholder proposals of $ 90,654,000.

It seems like an invitation for US companies to be sued by the US Securities & Exchange Commission for violating Regulation FD,» says Jonathan Macey, a professor of corporate law at Yale University, referring to an SEC rule that requires public corporations to inform the market of material statements — and forbids selective disclosure.

Not only is Delaware law highly influential with other state courts, but any legal practice that represents public corporations will be dealing with Delaware corporations... [and now] a recent Delaware Chancery Court decision makes clear that we really are all Delaware lawyers when it comes to that sort of practice.

In her prior role as the Director of Shareholder Activities at the Foundation, Laura successfully engaged public corporations on topics ranging from climate change to corporate governance.

Our portfolio includes over 250 companies, from multibillion - dollar public corporations that have become household names to up - and - coming tech startups positioned to fundamentally transform their industries.

The then Prime Minister's reformist agenda included reforms to the national budget system, special public corporations, medical insurance, national pension systems, and...

In recent years, private investment firms have amassed business empires rivaling the mightiest public corporations, buying up household names like Hilton Hotels, Dunkin' Donuts and Neiman Marcus.

He has over twenty - five years of combined business and legal experience and has acted for a wide range of Canadian and foreign public corporations, principally in the mining sector.

Nationalization, whether in the form of a monolithic public corporation, as in the old British system, or through so called «workers» control,» as in Yugoslavia, for example, merely puts the business firmly into the hands of bureaucratic or union elites, or indeed both.

In accordance with Article 168 of the 1992 Constitution and section 2 (1)(e) of the National Media Commission Act, 1993 (Act 449), the National Media Commission has, in consultation with His Excellency the President, appointed the underlisted as Chairpersons and other members of governing boards of public corporations managing the state - owned media:

Aremu also called for a «total ban on importation to reinvent domestic refineries and beneficiation to crude oil,» alleging that the «NNPC is the only public corporation that annually awards its directors long service incentives for no service at all, for non-functioning refineries.»

A new study by a University of Arkansas management professor shows how origins of social class explain risk - taking behavior — good or bad — by the top executive at the largest U.S. public corporations.

In fact, the ONLY example I can think of where a person can actually come out ahead by borrowing money is when public corporations issue bonds to investors on which they pay regular interest payments.

We got ta watch them greedy bastards that run the really corrupt public corporations as though they were thieves working at a goldmine.

Update 2: Clarification via metaphor: if I ask, «are there standards for annual reports by US public corporations?»

Years ago, money managers, institutional traders and the overall investment community owned stock assets because public corporations were likely to grow their businesses in a strong U.S. expansion.

Nevertheless, the secondary markets provided by public stock exchanges benefit public corporations; without them it would be difficult for companies to sell shares to the public, since it would be difficult for investors to later sell their shares if so desired.

What I'm Reading Long - Term Bonds Behave More Like Stocks Than You Might Think (Lawrence Hamtil), also see... Predicting Forward 60/40 Returns (Jake at EconomPic) Is the American Public Corporation in Trouble?

Next Fusajiro negotiated a deal with Japan Tobacco & Salt Public Corporation so that they'd sell trading cards from there stores.

Large public corporations also pool the financial interests of ordinary people, especially those of older age, many of whom are widows.

Transforming the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), a nonprofit public corporation, into a regional organization, contingent upon approval from the Legislature.

And while Chouinard and Matthews — old fly fishing buddies — say they never imagined they'd have 1,000 members when they started the organization, now their big challenge is to figure out how they can get public corporations to join in.