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On the ethics front …

July 22, 2009 – 10:55 am

Investor relations professionals need to stand on our own ethically, thinking through and following our convictions on what’s right or wrong. The Wall Street Journal brought a reminder yesterday of the need for personal responsibility with news that the head of investor relations for Deutsche Bank has been dismissed.
You may remember the story earlier (”Someone [...]

By Dick Johnson | Posted in Industry Blogs, Investor Relations | Also tagged ethics, Ethics in IR, Investor Relations, Reputational capital | Comments Off

Someone should’ve said No

July 6, 2009 – 1:48 pm

Well, there’s knowing your shareholders – and then there’s going way too far.
The German magazine Der Spiegel reports today that the country’s largest bank, Deutsche Bank, hired private investigators to look into members of its management and supervisory boards – and a pesky shareholder.
To be sure, the bank was investigating information leaks it saw as threatening [...]

By Dick Johnson | Posted in Industry Blogs, Investor Relations | Also tagged Activist shareholders, Ethics in IR, Investor Relations, Proxy fights, Scandals | Comments Off

Go out & play defense!

February 26, 2009 – 3:48 pm

The rummage sale level of stock prices has produced an uptick in hostile takeover activity - and in the fear of unwanted suitors - according to the March 2009 issue of Mergers & Acquisitions magazine. As might be expected, there’s a step-up in defensive play among CEOs, boards and investor relations people:
Until last year, the [...]

By Dick Johnson | Posted in IR trends & news, Industry Blogs, Investor Relations | Also tagged Governance, Investor Relations, M&A | Comments Off

Aggressive activists usually succeed

February 7, 2009 – 12:05 am

No one on the corporate side wants to get that confrontational call or letter from a hedge fund or investor demanding a change in management. But a paper by two New York University profs in the February 2009 Journal of Finance concludes shareholder activism works - for shareholders, that is.
The study draws upon 151 hedge fund activist [...]

By Dick Johnson | Posted in Industry Blogs, Investor Relations | Also tagged Activist shareholders, Governance, Investor Relations, Studies in finance | Comments Off

The Shifting Sands of Activist Investing

September 2, 2008 – 1:19 pm

For about the past 6 – 7 years there has been a quiet revolution occurring in corporate governance. It has been an interesting process to watch as shareholders, usually led by union pension funds, have pushed for reforms in anti-takeover provisions, …

By John Palizza | Posted in Industry Blogs, Investor Relations | Also tagged hedge funds, institutional investors, IR, ISS | Comments Off