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More than 400 participants turned out for the 2012 Forum of Corporate Governance for Listed Companies, which opened at the Shanghai International Conference Center in March. They include representatives of financial institutions, entrepreneurs of listed companies from Hong Kong and …
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TheShareholderActivist.com™ is a resource for investors for education, enlightenment, and, above all, empowerment. Therefore, exploring the definition of Shareholder Activism can help you envision your potential to affect change, and evolve from a passive investor to an empowered activist. Socially …
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I had run across InGovern before – it provides corporate governance research and proxy voting services regarding public companies in India – but Mohandas Pai backs corporate governance research start-up in the Hindu Business Line really caught my attention. Interesting …
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Battered Person Syndrome In clinical practice “battered person syndrome” is a legitimate condition which warrants psychotherapeutic intervention. Martin Seligman’s “learned helplessness theory” underscores the psychological structure of this syndrome which contends that people have a perceived absence of control over …
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“The revolution is being tweeted. Social media have enabled political uprisings in the Middle East, the global Occupy movement and even a swift blowback against banking fees in the United States. A logical next step would be for Facebook, Twitter …
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Shareholders, investors, and all citizens of the world need heroes: honorable, smart, diligent, mindful, hardworking, innovative men and women who govern the finest companies in America. It is easy to get embroiled and beaten down by the negative, the fraudulent, …
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Hopefully, it can mostly be attributable to early stage growth but Fenwick & West’s Corporate Governance Practices and Trends: A Comparison of Large Public Companies and Silicon Valley Companies found significant differences between the corporate governance practices of Silicon Valley 150 …
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On Wall Street, it’s all about multiples and geometrics. First JPM told us that $2 billion dollars was at stake, then the number grew and grew to finally, and possibly $6 billion dollars “down the road a piece maybe.” Shareholders …
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Of the 16 proxy access proposals filed by proponents in 2012 and listed on the ISS Checklist, eight are being challenged at the SEC. Ferro, Hewlett-Packard, Nabors Industries, CME Group, Pioneer Natural Resources, Staples and Charles Schwab have not sought …
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“There’s no business like show business.” And timing is everything. JPM may have been at the right race track, but they bet too early causing a false start and painful losses for shareholders, not clients or taxpayers. Regardless, this is …
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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's Mission
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.