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Category: Investor Relations

Frosted leaf symbolizing frozen accountability for foreign companies

Chinese Companies Delist from U.S. Exchange as Audit Conflict Persists

Frosted leaf symbolizing frozen accountability for foreign companies

Hundreds of thousands of people from the United States travel to Taiwan in any given year, according to the island nation’s tourism bureau. For the average U.S. tourist, a stopover there during a tour of Asian countries wouldn’t seem unusua...

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New Excise Tax Targets Stock Buybacks

Stock Exchange on Wall St. Close up Signs

As would be expected for legislation with the sweeping scope of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act, getting enough politicians to vote “yes” required an array of compromises and sweeteners. One of the most important revenue generat...

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2022 Proxy Season in Review: More Shareholder Proposals, Less Support

Organized shareholder proposals and paper files.

Legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden had a famous saying that summed up his approach to management: “Don’t mistake activity for achievement.” Doing something doesn’t necessarily mean anything was accomplished, in other words. Followi...

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SEC Overturns Curbs on Influence of Proxy Advisors

Kid walking on sidewalk in black and white

Proxy advisory firms weren’t particularly popular with the Securities and Exchange Commission during the previous presidential administration. Quite the opposite, in fact, as the SEC passed rules in 2020 designed to blunt the influence of f...

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Corporate Executives Prepare for a Recession

Elderly Couple walks together, Overcoming Recession

Opinions differ on what constitutes an economic recession. In general, it refers to a period of declining economic activity, which leaves plenty of room to argue about factors such as how long a downturn should be to qualify as a recession....

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