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- Sarbanes-Oxley
- SEC regulations on financial reporting and disclosure
- C-level communications and crisis management
- The new corporate governance
- Dealing with newly empowered activist shareholders
- Quashing dangerous rumors – in the press and online
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May 2008 - Table of Contents
Is it in a company’s best interests to split the positions of board chairman and chief executive officer?
In April, Motorola reached an agreement with Carl Icahn that averted a proxy fight with the well-known hedge fund activist. The company agreed to give a board seat immediately to Icahn Partners’ Keith Meister and to put another Icahn-backed nominee, William Hambrecht, on the slate for the annual meeting in May.
Institutional investors and money managers joined with academics, bankers, energy experts, economists, and other capital markets players at a recent conference in New York City that looked closely at the greening of American companies and capital markets.
The credit crisis that started with the subprime crash just keeps rolling. Unfortunately, the implications are reverberating far beyond the mortgage industry. Many financial institutions have billions of dollars in risky securities on their books, and no one seems to know for sure what they’re worth now. Over the last few quarters, banks have been changing their estimates of the value of these assets—and making headlines in the process.
IROs in the Blogosphere, Web Event, May 6. Contact: IOMA/Kennedy Information Services, 212-244-0360, ext.2, and ask for order code 8V01N.
Corporate Communication and Technology Conference, Using Web 2.0 to Deliver Strategic Objectives to All Your Stakeholders, Westin New York at Times Square, New York City, May 15-May 16. Contact: The Conference Board, www.conference-board.org/conferences/ …
Home Depot shareholders won a victory April 3 when the Atlanta-based company agreed to settle several shareholder lawsuits for $14.5 million.
In March of last year, IRN ran a feature on executive compensation titled "Should Shareholders Approve Executive Comp Plans?" Respondents commented on whether shareholders should have a voice in how much chief executive officers get paid.
Rethinking Restatements: Studies indicate that some restatements might simply be caused by complex accounting standards that companies have a hard time applying. Hedge Fund Activism: A working group on hedge fund activism offers recommendations for public companies and institutional investors who might find themselves involved in an activism campaign mounted by hedge funds.…
The pressure is mounting for corporations to give shareholders a say on pay.
U.S. Treasury Announces Its ‘Blueprint for a Stronger Regulatory Structure’
In March, the U.S. Department of the Treasury convened a blue-ribbon panel to discuss U.S. capital markets’ competitiveness.
Industry leaders and policy makers agreed that the competitiveness of the nation’s financial services sector—and its ability to support U.S. economic growth—is constrained by an outdated financial regulatory framework. …
In April, the National Investor Relations Institute released the results of the first annual NIRI-Korn/Ferry International IRO compensation survey. The electronic survey polled Fortune 500 IROs and NIRI corporate members, with a response rate of 29 percent among Fortune 500 IROs and 25 percent among NIRI members.
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