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Board and investor power balance, proxy voting, and oversight mechanisms.
South Korea's Supreme Court ruled that gathering proxies for one meeting does not make shareholders joint holders under the 5% disclosure rule. A group owning under 5% can collect revocable proxies and vote them without filing a stake report.
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Anthropic could start marketing its IPO the week of Nov. 9 at a valuation of $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion, Bloomberg reported. How much money it draws from other AI stocks before Thanksgiving depends on a share count the reports have not disclosed.
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Bob Chapek, fired as Disney CEO after less than three years, says he would turn the job down if offered again. He blames a board that brought back Bob Iger, who now sits on it while Josh D'Amaro runs the company.
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Matt Mullenweg's 84% vote returned him to control of Automattic 33 hours after its board put him on leave. For businesses on WordPress.com, WooCommerce or Tumblr, that vote is the governance they are buying into, whoever he names to the board.
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Public companies and their trade groups supplied over 40% of the $2.5 billion raised by party 527 committees in 25 years, a Wharton-CPA primer finds. Its authors want boards to govern that giving on purpose before possible post-midterm investigations.
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Korea's arms procurement agency says Hanwha, now KAI's second-largest shareholder, faces a full merger review if it puts directors on the board. That puts the deal's regulatory cost on the step from shareholder to controller.
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Matt Mullenweg has named four new Automattic directors weeks after the old board's leave vote against him lasted 33 hours and 20 minutes. He controls 84% of the voting power, so the people who oversee him are people he chose.
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SGX RegCo will require listed companies to disclose the KPIs behind executive pay from 2027; only 47% of issuers name their financial pay metrics today. Each must also publish a dividend policy with no payout commitment required, so shareholders get a written position to test against how boards use cash.
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Automattic put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave on Wednesday and made its CFO interim CEO. Two days later Mullenweg told staff on Slack that the board is back in agreement, and no board member has confirmed it.
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A September 16 proposal would rescind Rule 14a-8 and widen the discretion companies hold over proxies already returned to them, completing a withdrawal the SEC's staff started nearly a year ago.
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Russell Reynolds mapped 196 European exits and found that a single chief executive change tracks almost no difference in average hold period, while the delayed and repeated ones are where the risk sits.
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A Compensia review of Form 10-K filings from January 2024 through June 2026 found 118 companies running restatement-triggered recovery analyses, and 19 of them disclosed an actual clawback of executive pay.
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Nomura's count of Japanese listed subsidiaries is 139, down about 20% in a year, and from 2027 companies must disclose how minority shareholders voted on directors. At that pace the category empties in about four years.
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Berkshire put $39.4bn into equities in the first half of 2026 against $7.1bn a year earlier. On September 18 the chairmanship passed to Howard Buffett, whose remit his father defined as guarding the culture.
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Orlen's Swiss trading arm paid for Venezuelan crude with Tether tokens and received almost none of it. The loss was set before the first conversion, by the payment terms written into a contract signed days after the parties met.
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The Conference Board puts 35% of this year's Russell 3000 forced departures in health care. The same report has forced exits taking a smaller share of 2026 successions than in either prior year, and no single industry profile.
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Warren Buffett has made himself chairman emeritus and kept his board seat, leaving Greg Abel with operating control and his son Howard with the company's culture. Berkshire built that split in stages, not in one announcement.
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Average pay at risk for S&P 1500 chief executives reached 78% in 2023, up from 46% in 1993, while target pay converged on the industry median. Compensation Actually Paid is the first figure that lets a committee check whether that design pays for performance.
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Commissioner Mark Uyeda says the legal authority for a rule the SEC has run for eight decades was lacking, and his own statement allows that removing it could widen what shareholders may put to a vote.
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The reciprocal deals, effective September 10, would cost Automattic $8.15 million now that Matt Mullenweg has fired both men. The company's new lawyers are deciding whether to pay out or contest the documents.
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