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Guinness Peat Group [NZX: GPG]is focussing on cutting costs as an investigation by the UK pensions regulator delays its plan to wind up most of its investments and focus on threadmaker Coats.
30 Aug 2013
Mainland Chinese shares are set to join global equity benchmarks as early as three years' time, FTSE's chief executive has forecast, raising the prospect that international investors will have to shift billions of dollars into the market.
8 Mar 2013
Attempts to create a European giant to rival Boeing of the US have collapsed, amid investor anger at the handling of a multibillion-euro deal that would have transformed the world's defence and aerospace industry.
12 Oct 2012
Apple has won an emphatic victory in its US patent battle with Samsung, after a California jury found that the South Korean electronics group infringed a substantial majority of its contested design and user-interface patents.
25 Aug 12
The Handout supporting Paul Ovnerud-Potter, Vice President Business Development Australia & New Zealand Moody's Investor Service, presentation on 5 July 2012 is available for the Members and Affiliates. Contact info@csnz.org.
European companies could face serious challenges refinancing a wall of maturing debt over the next few years as the region's banks deal with the impact of regulation and fallout from the Eurozone debt crisis, according to a new report from Standard & Poor's.
11 May 2012
Shareholders in General Electric have come close to winning a vote that would have given them more direct control over the largest US industrial group by market capitalisation against the wishes of its board.
27 Apr 2012
The SME [small and medium enterprises] sector is the engine of economic growth worldwide, and yet the sector's full growth potential is far from realised. Many small SMEs are chronically underserved" - Peter Sands, Group Chief Executive, Standard Chartered.
READ MORE of Standard Chartered's programme in Pakistan.
Europe’s banking system needs to be guaranteed first and recapitalised later. National Banks cannot afford to recapitalise the banks now.
A group of almost 100 prominent Europeans delivered an open letter to the leaders of all 17 Eurozone countries on Wednesday.
14 Oct 2011
In April 2011, the EU issued a Green Paper entitled The EU Corporate Governance Framework to launch a public consultation on possible ways forward to improve the corporate governance framework in Europe as part of its commitment to a single market.
CSIA [Corporate Secretaries International Association] believes that the various corporate governance frameworks in its member countries provide excellent comparative viewpoints from which to engage in this review.
2 August 2011
A business case was presented in 2009 Women on Boards: Why Women on company boards are good for business. This review now updates and provides a comprehensive examination of the evidence for a link from diversity to improved company performance and market capitalisation.
Utilising international resources and data from Standard and Poors, Fortune 500, FTSE100, ASX500, and 2,500 of the largest Danish firms, the review offers a number of possible explanations … READ MORE.
It is good governance for the boards of listed entities to develop a policy on diversity, and others advocate that the same philosophy and principles apply to all entities utilising board representation structures ... Chartered Secretaries Australia issued CSA - Good Governance Guide on 13 July 2011 ... READ MORE .
28 July 2011
“Hot on the heels of the Feltex decision vindicating the right of directors to rely on advice,” came the “the New South Wales Court of Appeal who released a judgement that considers in some detail what happens when there are gaps in advice, or the advice is based on unchallenged assumptions”.
Morley v Australian Securities and Investments Commission ... READ MORE was heralded by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission ( ASIC). But as Chapman Tripp advised in February 2011, ... READ MORE.
26 July 2011