Sentences with phrase «shareholder interests over»

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For me, one of the most important, and surprising, discoveries over the last few years has been that choosing the best approach to balancing business and social concerns starts with a decision to make shareholder interests the higher priority.

Time and again the Works Council, or Betriebsrat, which holds eight of VW's 20 board seats, has played a decisive role, mobilizing the support of the state government to get its way over the interests of private shareholders.

«Over the past 50 years, we've seen a tremendous increase in the interest around our shareholders meeting,» said Buffett, the company's CEO, in a statement.

Shareholders may also raise questions over the very high interest rates the bank charges to financially strapped customers who resort to so - called payday loans, which are in the sights of state attorneys general.

Board members decide their own pay, but in this case, the dispute is over whether it was excessive and whether the board acted in shareholders» interests.

This is a particularly interesting sector because it is one of the few that disproportionately produces rich shareholders over long periods of time.

One of the governance principles is that «Shareholders should be entitled to voting rights in proportion to their economic interest...» In other words, the Group does not favour multi-voting share structures that characterize over 80 companies on the TSX and that have been popular in Canadian IPOs over the last few years (see comments on Aritzia's IPO here).

«Over the past 50 years, we've seen a tremendous increase in the interest around our shareholders meeting.

Clearly, shareholders are interested in having more power over the direction of Alphabet and are not in agreement with top management.

On the bottom line, AB InBev's normalized earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) grew 11.8 % year over year to $ 5.354 billion, while normalized profit attributable to shareholders climbed 8.4 % to $ 1.872 billion.

This divergence of interests expands over time as executive's efforts to compensate themselves at the expense of shareholders compound over the years.

At the annual shareholders meeting this year, Buffett explained that he thought Berkshire Hathaway's intrinsic value grew at an average annual rate of about 10 % over the last decade, but he warned that future returns would be lower if interest rates remained near generational lows.

This is the most legitimate concern over these structures in our view and while it could be a problem; these are more often the exception opposed to the rule simply due to the fact that markets will not invest in management teams that do not act in the best interest of the shareholders.

I've recounted over the past year the many allegations that Ferro — in rejecting Gannett, in making business deals with those formerly associated with his Wrapports company (that ownership now held in trust, he says), and in doing private placements of shares or now selectively buying back shares, as he's done with Oaktree — has not acted in the best interests of all shareholders.

In an effort to align manager's interests with shareholders, CEO compensation has shifted over time from cash salary and bonus to a mix with stock and options with vesting schedules where stock and options are now 55.6 % of the compensation1, with Earnings per Share (EPS) as one of the targets for vesting stock or options.

Morgan Stanley, for instance, reached out to almost all Spotify shareholders over the last month or so to gauge their interest in selling stock, according to people familiar with the process, and more recently began the same conversations with institutions interested in buying Spotify shares.

Furthermore, your Board is aligned with the interests of ALL shareholders and the composition of your Board has been substantially refreshed with the average director tenure just over three years.

On a tangent Jon my son (he's 4) asked me why he should support Arsenal, I said «well because I do, you're granddad does and your great granddad did» I was going to say its because of the values and principles that our club has but then I stopped myself because I have no idea what they are anymore other than paying a has been manager and over hyped players a fortune for non achievement while being owned by a majority shareholder that has no interest in the club other than as a business and having a board that view the fans as the gift that keeps on giving.

Should the Board have any question that the plan outlined above is in the best interests of shareholders, and that any attempts to pursue an alternative course of action would be over the objection of your stockholders, then we urge you to call a Special Meeting to allow the shareholders to reinforce our own conclusions and those suggested in correspondence from shareholders representing 65 % of NTI stock.

Our formula includes free cash flow to the firm (free cash flow to equity shareholders, plus interest expenses), because interest expenses are volatile and hard to predict with accuracy over the long term.

While the current Board may sincerely be working in the best interest of shareholders, they have not delivered over the past several years.

A balance sheet item that represents the excess of the company's assets over its liabilities and shows shareholder's interest in the company.

This evidence totally contradicts the consistent stand of the industry, articulated over and over again at the annual membership meetings of the Investment Company Institute, that «the interests of mutual fund managers are directly aligned with the interests of mutual fund shareholders.»

the fact that we had vigorously and comprehensively explored strategic alternatives, including undertaking extensive efforts, with the assistance of a financial advisor, over a six - month period to identify a financial or strategic buyer interested in a business combination that would provide value to shareholders in excess of the estimated liquidation value, or a strategic transaction that would mitigate risks from our continuing operations to develop our cortical stimulation technology, and that no strategic or financial partner had expressed interest in pursuing such transactions;

Despite the knee - jerk reaction to sell telecoms when interest rates start creeping up, investors should take solace in the very secure and stable business that BCE runs, which has been rewarding shareholders for well over a century.

This is important because prior counsel would have been aligned with prior management (usually) and owners (more particularly) which creates a de facto and ongoing conflict in interest, both in terms of defending the status quo and management carried over, and also in managing any ongoing warranty and related issues, where the sellers are carried over management, or are significant personal shareholders in the new operation.

In Pulse Data the ASC declined to exercise its public interest jurisdiction to cease trade a shareholder rights plan, primarily because a large majority of the shareholders of the issuer had voted to adopt the plan at a time where the take - over bid was pending with full disclosure of the implications of the shareholder rights plan.

Company, commercial, equity and financial (including civil fraud) disputes, including: business disputes; company and share acquisitions and valuations; shareholder disputes; disputes with and between directors; rights and disputes over corporate assets and opportunities; fiduciary obligations; charges and other security interests; financial transactions; securitisation arrangements; disputed asset disposals; civil and criminal asset recovery claims; general commercial, banking and finance contracts; commercial agency; evidence gathering for claims overseas; joint ventures; and partnerships.

Labeling those who value and defend bar independence as restrictive may permit some to gloss over the consequences of lawyers offering services to the public while controlled, not by client instructions, but rather by the interests of silent business partners, be they shareholders, private investors, or holding companies with other business units.

Morgan Stanley, for instance, reached out to almost all Spotify shareholders over the last month or so to gauge their interest in selling stock, according to people familiar with the process, and more recently began the same conversations with institutions interested in buying Spotify shares.

«Blackstone and new shareholder interests will be closely aligned over the near term given the firm's significant ownership stake, which will likely be reduced gradually over the next three to five years,» said John Pawlowski, senior research associate with Green Street Advisors.