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Author: Rob Peters

Since When is a Covid-19 Vaccine Bad for Business?

Since When is a Covid-19 Vaccine Bad for Business?

Since When is a Covid-19 Vaccine Bad for Business?

In the hellacious year that is 2020, the sight of semi-trucks pulling away from loading docks constitutes cause for celebration. Such was the scene over the weekend at a Pfizer manufacturing plant in Michigan, where onlookers cheered as del...

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ESG Playbook Offers Proxy-Season Tips

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Black Lives Matter. Raging wildfires. A deadly pandemic. A bitter election. The issues dominating American life in 2020 related closely to environmental, social, and governance topics. The same could be said of the 2020 proxy season, during...

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CEO Pay-Ratio Math Gets Messy in 2020

Mathematical Pay Ratios Written on Chalkboard

As far as math problems go, it’s not a hard one. You take the CEO’s compensation and divide it by the compensation of the median employee. Presto! Just like that, you’ve got the CEO pay ratio that public companies have been required to disc...

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Issuers Disclose Electoral Worries

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The 2020 presidential campaign introduced Americans to the concept of “election week.” Political junkies accustomed to knowing the identity of the next president on the first Tuesday in November went to bed on November 3 with a vastly diffe...

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Buybacks Beware: SEC Settlement Sends Message About Internal Controls

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Public corporations are spending upwards of a trillion dollars annually on stock buybacks, sending capital back to shareholders by the truckload. However, in a year already fraught with perils for U.S. companies that would like to buy back...

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