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Activist Investors Making Inroads with Corporate Campaigns

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Activist investors didn’t take a summer vacation this year. In fact, they logged their busiest quarter ever. According to data from Barclays, the 61 new activist campaigns launched globally between July and September represented one more th...

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In Move Against Activist Investors, Exxon Opens Up Auto Voting

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For retail investors, proxy season offers an opportunity to let the C-suite know how they feel about the direction of a company. Mom and pop probably aren’t getting a private audience with the CEO or the board of directors any time soon, bu...

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As Talk of ESG Ebbs in Public, Companies Quietly Commit to Goals

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The relationship between corporate America and the environmental, social and governance movement is following a well-trod pattern familiar to fans of the TV show Breaking the Band on REELZ. The Beatles, Van Halen, Spice Girls – splashy debu...

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Does ‘Corporate Bullying’ Work?

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Nobody likes a bully, or so the saying goes. That may be true, but it has never stopped bullies from popping up in places ranging from playgrounds to office cubicles to the highest reaches of government. The modus operandi doesn’t change, r...

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Activist Investors Use SEC’s Shift to Press Companies on Climate and Social Agendas

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When it comes to pushing for clean energy and environmentally responsible policymaking, publicly traded companies talk a big game. Their actions don’t match the rhetoric, though. That’s the takeaway offered by a report from sustainability a...

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