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Our Mission
Our Mission is to
campaign for the protection of investors and savers by promoting
good corporate governance.
We also believe that the wider spread of share ownership is in
itself a public good and may sometimes even be preferable to higher
economic efficiency.
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EXECUTIVE
COMPENSATION
Murdoch bonanza
This headline caught our eye and is also proof
that we are not to be blamed if there is growing public disenchantment with
compensation trends that are one-sidedly in favour of management and in favour
of the chief executives in particular.
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GOVERNANCE
Super
voting
Shares
We reject all types of differentiated voting rights. In most cases they
serve to protect the interest of a dominant owner.
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MERGER
REGULATION
Stork hoists
the white flag
As the management will stay in place after the proposed takeover by
Candover Investments, one has to ask why the buyout was necessary in the first
place.
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PENSIONS Controlling
the costs of Public Sector Pensions
The introduction of a simplified Pension System would also solve the problem of skyrocketing Public Sector Pension costs.
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PRIVATE
EQUITY
Why only now Mr.
Pessina?
We read with interest that an
'energetic' Stefano Pessina now 'puts spring in step at Boots'.
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WIDER
SHARE OWNERSHIP
Tax regime
should be neutral
Politicians never
stop tinkering with the tax code.
Has this ever been designated a
form of obsessive behaviour by the medical community? A case in point are the
latest proposals for the taxation of investment income and capital gains in
Germany.
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