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Pro-Gov - Promoting good corporate Governance and Investor Protection
http://www.pro-gov.org/Private_Equity.htm
Promoting Good Corporate Governance. When companies get sold as a whole or in part to Private Equity operators we raise the same questions as we do in regular mergers between normal operating companies. The main problem is the question of obtaining the best value for all shareholders and whether the demise of an independent company is really in the best interests of all constituents. Do they have an incentive to sell the business below value? Private Equity operators benefit from extremely lenient regula...
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Pro-Gov - Promoting good corporate Governance and Investor Protection
http://www.pro-gov.org/Bonds.htm
Promoting Good Corporate Governance. Shareholders - at least in the United Kingdom - have for a long time benefited from a clear set of rules enshrined in a Code of Practice. We think that bondholders need more effective protection against changes in the financial circumstances of companies in the event of mergers or takeover situations. Our Mission is to campaign for the protection of investors and savers by promoting good corporate governance. Tax incentives and institutional constraints have favoured ...
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Pro-Gov - Promoting good corporate Governance and Investor Protection
http://www.pro-gov.net/Pensions.htm
Promoting Good Corporate Governance. Pensions - Regulation and Policy. We favour that the State provides all citizens with a pension that supports them with the basic necessities of life. Everyone would get the same pension and therefore the system would be simple to operate and cheap to run. MORE ON PENSION REGULATION AND POLICY. Our Mission is to campaign for the protection of investors and savers by promoting good corporate governance. On the other hand, abuses that have developed over the past few ye...
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Pro-Gov - Promoting good corporate Governance and Investor Protection
http://www.pro-gov.net/Shareholder%20Voting.htm
Promoting Good Corporate Governance. We reject all types of differentiated voting rights. In most cases they serve to protect the interest of a dominant owner. This does not mean, however, that we subscribe to the simplistic theory of 'one share, one vote' that is currently so popular in corporate governance circles, academia and politics. Super-voting shares are blatant discrimination and an abuse of the privilege that limited and public company status provides. We are certainly not in favour of giving ...
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Pro-Gov - Promoting good corporate Governance and Investor Protection
http://www.pro-gov.org/Merger.htm
Promoting Good Corporate Governance. The existing mechanism for transferring ownership of a company as a whole is seriously defective. Investors that buy shares not just for a quick punt but in view of holding them for the long term or until a certain value point is reached are unceremoniously squeezed out in a voting process that is biased in favour of auctioning off a going concern to any bidder who gets a relatively narrow majority of shares. Full taxation of capital gains could also be levied on the ...
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Pro-Gov - Promoting good corporate Governance and Investor Protection
http://www.pro-gov.net/Merger.htm
Promoting Good Corporate Governance. The existing mechanism for transferring ownership of a company as a whole is seriously defective. Investors that buy shares not just for a quick punt but in view of holding them for the long term or until a certain value point is reached are unceremoniously squeezed out in a voting process that is biased in favour of auctioning off a going concern to any bidder who gets a relatively narrow majority of shares. Full taxation of capital gains could also be levied on the ...
pro-gov.org
Pro-Gov - Promoting good corporate Governance and Investor Protection
http://www.pro-gov.org/Pensions.htm
Promoting Good Corporate Governance. Pensions - Regulation and Policy. We favour that the State provides all citizens with a pension that supports them with the basic necessities of life. Everyone would get the same pension and therefore the system would be simple to operate and cheap to run. MORE ON PENSION REGULATION AND POLICY. Our Mission is to campaign for the protection of investors and savers by promoting good corporate governance. On the other hand, abuses that have developed over the past few ye...
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Pro-Gov - Promoting good corporate Governance and Investor Protection
http://www.pro-gov.com/Activism.htm
Promoting Good Corporate Governance. It is an accepted dogma at most business schools - and certainly with investment bankers - that corporate activists are a good thing. It would also be helpful if all significant proposals are discussed in an open forum that is open to all shareholders and where all proposals are put forward. It is high time that the owners of a business do not only read in the newspaper when major decisions affecting their investment are taken. The good old Annual General Meet...Our M...
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Pro-Gov - Promoting good corporate Governance and Investor Protection
http://www.pro-gov.com/Boards.htm
Promoting Good Corporate Governance. At present, non-execs are selected by management itself and usually rubber-stamped at the shareholder meeting. So it should come as no surprise that in many instances board members feel more allegiance to the chief executive or chairman than to the interests of the shareholders. We suggest that board members should act as paid consultants if management thinks that they can provide useful input in running their business. FOR TOPICAL COMMENTS GO TO OUR BLOG. Tax incenti...
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Pro-Gov - Promoting good corporate Governance and Investor Protection
http://www.pro-gov.com/Wider_Shareownership.htm
Promoting Good Corporate Governance. We believe that the wider spread of share ownership is in itself a public good and may sometimes even be preferable to higher economic efficiency. Tax regime should be neutral. Politicians never stop tinkering with the tax code. Has this ever been designated a form of obsessive behaviour by t. A case in point are the latest proposals for the taxation of investment income and capital gains in Germany. Shareholders in publicly listed companies are widely dispersed and c...
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