While only about 5 %
of retail shareholders will vote, in a contest that tiny slice of the pie can swing the vote.
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Therefore, for companies with a significant
retail shareholder base, forming B shares may be the best way to return excess capital to stockholders.
Sent to tens of thousands of
large retail shareholders, the gimmick alone cost Elliott as much as $ 3 million, proxy contest advisers estimate.
That is a significant oversight considering that Warrnambool is controlled by four big shareholders with competing interests controlling about 63.5 per cent of the company, hedge funds controlling about 15 per cent and the balance held
by retail shareholders.
Among retail channels, registered investment advisors and
online retail shareholders utilising discount brokerage firms are the largest users of passive products at 30 and 58 per cent respectively.
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This can be bad news for
retail shareholders who do not hold their funds inside an IRA, employer - sponsored retirement plan or variable annuity contract.
«This dividend cut will be a major disappointment to GE's (roughly 40 percent)
retail shareholder base,» said RBC Capital Markets analyst Deane Dray.
Johnson & Johnson is prepared to pay the price per tendered share to
the retail shareholders in CHF and therefore provide a wholesale exchange facility.
It's an important change for a jurisdiction that has so far had only a minimal level of shareholder protection, especially for independent and
retail shareholders.
At the time, some market participants raised concerns with, inter alia, the control and dilution implications the additional authority would bring, especially to
retail shareholders who might be shut out of institutional book builds.
The WCB share register is now largely made up of strategic shareholders and hedge funds, with the majority of
retail shareholders having sold their stock.