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Climate Proposals : ESG Shareholder Activism Sidestepping Board Authority

Cools, Sofie - 2023

Investors have in recent years attempted to add climate proposals to the ballot of shareholder meetings, requesting climate disclosures, say on climate, or emission targets. However, many corporate law systems view environmental (and social) issues as matters of strategy and statutorily...

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Independent Directors and Controlling Shareholders Around the World

Ferrarini, Guido - 2014

that are typical of independent directors in diffuse ownership, such as the hiring and firing of managers and the setting …

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Financial Twilight Re-Appraisal : Ending the Judicially Created Quagmire of Fiduciary Duties to Creditors

Hargovan, Anil - 2017

Directors owe fiduciary duties of care and loyalty to their corporations, and by extension to their shareholders. When … a corporation approaches or enters insolvency, however, courts have recently found that the fiduciary duty calculus may … several countries have extended fiduciary duty protection to creditors on equitable grounds. This trend has led to a state of …

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Esg initiatives and directors' fiduciary dutiesfiduciary duties

Latella, Dario - In: ESG Integration and SRI Strategies in the EU : …, (pp. 109-127). 2023

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Boardroom Gender Diversity Reforms and Institutional Monitoring : Global Evidence

Fauver, Larry; Hung, Mingyi; Taboada, Alvaro G.; Wang, … - 2022

independent institutions. Furthermore, firms experience improved valuation and profitability following reform compliance. Overall …

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Think twice, it’s all right : lessons from the GameStop saga

Arrigoni, Matteo - 2021

Online trading platforms and internet communities facilitate access to financial markets and let investors reduce transaction and coordination costs. In this way: (1) they permit many people to be directed towards a single goal, but, at the same time, (2) they allow operations aimed at...

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Sovereign Investing and Corporate Governance : Evidence and Policy

Rose, Paul - 2015

Discussions of corporate governance often focus solely on the attractiveness of firms to investors, but it is also true that firms seek out preferred investors. What, then, are the characteristics of an attractive investor? With nearly $6 trillion in assets, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are...

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