Not exact matches
It's interesting to consider what this type of calculation would show about
other shareholder proposals, especially this year
where two proposals pertained to areas
where Alphabet is facing public pressure.
Other areas
where this site tries to capture, and refine, best practices include: corporate structures, investment mechanics, boards, director compensation,
shareholder communications, CEO Updates, share registers and share and option vesting.
In everything in life there must be a balance but for now its Profit (
shareholders happy) over trophy (fans happyness) and in accounting
where one side is less the
other side then there will be problem at the long run.....
The Fund has no sales load (a charge for purchasing the fund), no soft - dollar arrangements (
where fund managers receive research, data terminals and
other benefits in return for paying higher commissions to brokers), no trailing fees (
where funds pay brokerages an ongoing percentage of assets in order to bring business to the fund), and no 12b - 1 marketing fees (
where shareholders pay an amount over and above management and operating expenses, so that funds can advertise and attract new
shareholders).
On the
other hand, once companies have matured to the point
where they don't need to spend all of the money they generate on growing the business, there are two main ways to return capital to
shareholders — dividends or share buybacks.
I've been in positions
where I and all
other minority
shareholders have zero weight but majority owners don't turn the screw.
Owners of common stocks also receive a vote for every share they own which come into play during
shareholder meetings
where things like board of director elections are held and
other company business is decided.
I am of the belief that a share buyback
where the shares are held as treasury is nothing
other than a waste of
shareholder resources.
ETF for India, China, Vietnam, etc.)-- Vanguard is good; I am in process of replacing the TD eFunds with Vanguard ETFs (I should have done it much earlier but they were under in my RRSP, it should have not mattered, the corresponding ETFs were low too)-- Big companies are good (McDonalds, Starbucks, Pfizer, WM) until they are not so perhaps I should get rid of them and buy more Vanguard ETFs — Buying distressed companies could be a winning proposition but have I very mixed results so better not (BP and Transocean bought after the oil spill, Nortel, BlackBerry, and Nokia — BP and NOKIA good, Transocean under not much, but under, BB very, very bad, and Nortel no comments)-- Berkshire is very good as it is a kind of ETF but what would happen after Warren Buffett (who would have thought AIG would need to be bailed out and the
shareholders wiped out in the process or
other cases
where individuals brought companies down for example Barings the oldest bank in England)
«But
where the allegations are only in respect of a [party] being a
shareholder and every
other shareholder has suffered the same damage, you have to proceed by way of a derivative action.»
•
Shareholder and partnership disputes,
where one party is seeing to buy out the
other, or
where minority
shareholders are claiming unfair prejudice
In the wake of the corporate scandals in the late 1990s and early 2000s involving misappropriation of resources, bribery, fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, and
other such shenanigans, there was a large public outcry on the part of
shareholders, the media, the regulators, the government, and
other community stakeholders asking «
where were in - house counsel, were they asleep at the wheel?»
Those who bought stock in Slater & Gordon acknowledged and accepted that, unlike
other businesses
where «
shareholder value» is (perversely, in my opinion) the only objective, investing in a law firm means accepting a much - reduced level of influence and importance.
Since leaving Deutsche Bank David has worked at Hays PLC, the FTSE250 listed specialist recruitment group,
where he currently heads up the Investor Relations & Corporate Development team, taking responsibility for all aspects of
shareholder and
other stakeholder communications.