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March 2, 2009
World Diary
...will be among items on offer at New York auction house Antiquorum (to March...Sudan's president, over allegations of war crimes in Darfur. THURSDAY 5 AIG...including Donald Kohn, Federal Reserve board vice-chairman, and Eric Dinallo, superintendent of the New York State insurance department, about what went...middle of May. SUNDAY 8 North Korean elections Parliamentary elections postponed from... By Adam Jezard
September 28, 2005
Top Nymex shareholders seek elections for new board
Prominent members of the New York Mercantile Exchange are expected to file a petition to downsize the current board and open elections for a new board as early as today, according...before tomorrow's scheduled meeting of Nymex shareholders and management...that Nymex plans to set up in the Gulf state of Dubai. Shareholders have also complained... By Andrei Postelnicu in New York and Kevin Morrison in London
December 20, 2006
America’s elite is pulling further ahead
...American dream in action: the prospect of almost limitless reward for those who have...asks Hank Greenberg, former chairman of AIG, who was forced out by the insurance group’s board amid regulatory concerns that followed an investigation by Eliot Spitzer, New York state attorney general. “This is a market...crime.” Mr Greenberg says the promise of exceptional reward is what keeps the... By Krishna Guha and Francesco Guerrera
December 11, 2009
Retrospective: Stories and characters of 2009
...20bn rescue package sparked a series of investigations, by the New York attorney-general, the Securities and...and a congressional committee. On top of the regulatory scrutiny, the revelation...instructions from federal regulators, the new chairman, Walter Massey, undertook a...shake-up of Lewis’s once compliant board of directors. Out went most of the ceremonial... By
March 30, 2007
Radical thinking
...Society died with him that day. A series of investigations by the Tribunal of Concerned Citizens, by India’s National...Commission and by Human Rights Watch in New York later accused two Hindu extremist groups...and its youth wing, the Bajrang Dal, of masterminding the massacres. Numerous...groups, including HRW, argued that the state government, led by Narendra Modi, a... By Jo Johnson
April 3, 2005
Caterpillar caught in activist crossfire
...state of Delaware, where more than half of the US's biggest companies are incorporated...shareholder rights. John Wilcox, a director of Georgeson, a New York-based voting services agency, says...is a growing consensus that some type of change is required." In the meantime...companies. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees last...accept shareholder nominations in its board elections. Rich Ferlauto, AFSCME director of... By Sundeep Tucker in New York
October 16, 2009
Young Tamils swap bombs for BlackBerrys
...Tamils, he stood in front of the Houses of Parliament, demanding a ceasefire in Buddhist...reaching a violent climax after 25 years of on-off fighting. To Londoners accepting...over the following weeks in Paris and New York – it may have seemed a clear-cut case of might versus right. But the Tamil struggle for an independent state in Sri Lanka has been spearheaded by the... By Shyamantha Asokan
December 21, 2006
Gilded age: how a corporate elite is leaving middle America behind
...American dream in action: the prospect of almost limitless reward for those who...asks Hank Greenberg, former chairman of AIG, who was forced out by the insurance group's board amid regulatory concerns that followed an investigation by Eliot Spitzer, New York state attorney general. "This is a market...crime." Mr Greenberg says the promise of exceptional reward is what keeps the... By Krishna Guha, Francesco Guerrera and Eoin Callan
April 4, 2005
Caterpillar caught in activist crossfire
...state of Delaware, where more than half of the US's biggest companies are incorporated...shareholder rights. John Wilcox, a director of Georgeson, a New York-based voting services agency, says...is a growing consensus that some type of change is required." In the meantime...companies. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees last...accept shareholder nominations in its board elections. By Sundeep Tucker
April 28, 2009
Pension funds call for new BofA board
...public statement of this kind. The Calpers board has a heavy representation of union leaders. Mr McKinley said most of the fund’s shares were held in index...shareholder and hoped to help put together a new board. Calpers and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (Calstrs... By Deborah Brewster in New York