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Thanks to Broc Romanek’s post, Submissions to Corp Fin’s Office of Chief Counsel: Use Online Forms, Not E-Mail Address. “As Corp Fin Staffers have been warning folks at conferences, etc., the Office of Chief Counsel is shutting down its email …
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Population growth is surging; our natural resources are time-limited. As the planet nears 7 billion people by year end, our capacity to produce energy (and in turn food) will be burdened perhaps beyond what we can even imagine. The poverty …
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SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro testified before the Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs Oversight and Government Reform Committee, U.S. House of Representatives in April, 2012. Excerpts below: Among the specific steps that we …
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Origins of the Movement The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement was initiated by a Canadian activist group known as Adbusters established by Micah White and Kalle Lasn. It is an anti-consumerist platform. Its essential thesis is that the developed world …
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Two weeks after SEC lawyers granted six corporations approval to exclude “proxy access” proposals from their proxy materials, United States Proxy Exchange (USPX) members are already submitting an updated version of that same proposal to other corporations. Updated language addresses …
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Yesterday, September 17, 2012, marked the one year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Over the next several weeks this writer will post a multi-part series focusing on OWS from a variety of vantage points. The history and origin …
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In recent years, virtually all boards acknowledge that an annual board evaluation is required by “best practices.” How that evaluation should be done, by the board members themselves or by outside “experts” still remains an open matter. And whether these …
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THE PROMINENCE OF “WALL STREET” IN OUR CULTURE Money has also always been a component of man’s proclivity to wage war on his fellow man. War debts had been created and the shares of these banks plus treasury bonds issued …
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That’s the title of a new report from ISS on the factors that contributed to significant investor opposition during last year’s say-on-pay votes at U.S. companies. From the summary: With the advent of market wide say-on-pay votes in the U.S. …
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THE EMERGENCE OF STOCK TRADING In 1801, the formal name London Stock Exchange was granted. It was made up of 550 subscribers and 100 clerks. Stocks became known as funds allocated by a company or the government from its capital …
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About Christopher Bayer, Ph.D.
Co-founder of TheShareholderActivist.comTM, Christopher Bayer, Ph.D., is "The Wall Street Psychologist." With his weekly blogs, research and special features, Dr. Bayer brings you inside the minds of The Street as few can.
Since the early 1980's, Dr. Bayer has practiced as a licensed New York psychologist and psychoanalyst, specializing in the treatment of financial services executives in the securities and banking industries. He has a long standing interest in shareholder education and shareholder activism.
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The Shareholder Activist is a network that empowers investors to exercise their rights as equity stakeholders. Our goal is to create a platform for responsible shareholder activism ensuring the viability and sustainability of companies we co-own. As an online community we provide tools, tactics, and techniques to hold companies to their stated mission. We advocate for shareholder and investor education.