Boardroom Safe keeping Sep 30, 2007 By Janine Armin 6 min read The second discussion in the Foley-Corporate Secretary webcast series was a heated one given current investigatory hype:... Read More
Boardroom A pioneering spirit faces fresh challenges Sep 30, 2007 By Clare Harrison 6 min read Chris Morris, CEO of Computershare, must have felt shortchanged when he arrived in London in May of this year. The Australian had... Read More
Boardroom Time to go holistic Sep 30, 2007 By Geoff Loftus 7 min read Once upon a time, way back in the days of the Great Depression, the gentlemen in Congress felt that the securities markets were a... Read More
Boardroom Press one for proxy Sep 30, 2007 By Janine Armin 9 min read Shifts in proxy voting methods and advances in e-communications are seeing issuers and shareholders alike struggle under the... Read More
Boardroom The reporting merry-go-round Sep 30, 2007 By Janine Armin 9 min read At the end of July, SEC chairman Christopher Cox assembled an Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting to quell... Read More
Boardroom CEO, phone home Sep 30, 2007 By Aviva Freudmann 11 min read Picture the company of the future. Its main assets are its brands, its know-how and the loyalty of its customers. Almost... Read More
Boardroom The price of being public Aug 31, 2007 By Brendan Sheehan 7 min read After years of spiraling fees and countless work hours it appears as though the costs of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley, and of... Read More
Boardroom The lesser of two evils Aug 31, 2007 By Elizabeth Judd 13 min read On July 25, the SEC announced it would issue a concept release to explore whether US companies should be able to report their... Read More
Boardroom Not another meeting Aug 31, 2007 By Clare Harrison 8 min read IROs are likely to regard annual general meetings (AGMs) as more of a chore than an eagerly anticipated event. Some disasters... Read More
Boardroom The simple life Aug 31, 2007 By Mary Beth Kissane 7 min read Douglas Ian Shaw is a man with a mantra: ‘keep it simple’. It’s a good rule too, enabling him to keep up with his varied career... Read More