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...In 2006, the political scientists Charles Taber and Milton Lodge looked at motivated reasoning about gun control and affirmative action....
...“You can’t have this uncertainty in the market about whether they can redeem them or not,” said Mr Taber. “Issuers need to state what their position is.”...
...“We can’t have clever lawyers undermining the market, and we can’t have a situation in one of the world’s leading capital markets where shareholders don’t know the rights of their shares.”...
...Mr Taber now wants regulators to take a look at the loophole in the Companies Act that would have allowed Aviva to cancel the shares. “They shouldn’t be able to do this,” he said....
...“The charge is that he’s high-handed and doesn’t listen. I don’t think that’s fair.”...
...One top 20 investor said: “I don’t necessarily see why the CEO of an organisation should not be on the board of another company . . ....
...Expertise is no defence against this emotional reaction; in fact, Taber and Lodge found that better-informed experimental subjects showed stronger biases....
...One can only hope that Mrs May and her team don’t believe a word of this. Some cheerleading is forgivable, and perhaps inevitable....
...This time, it didn’t include the ECNs into account for stress-testing....
...Mark Taber, who has campaigned on behalf of bondholders against the proposed redemption, said he was “flabbergasted” that Lloyds was appealing against the decision....
...The deal for retail investors isn’t necessarily a bad one, but you will lose the income payment.”...
...“I wouldn’t call myself investor-friendly, but I would call myself fair,” he said....
...“They are up against a deadline and there will be people who aren’t aware of this in time,” admitted Mr Taber....
...“And I don’t want it to be, but I do want to make a difference....
...One grateful pensioner wrote to Mr Taber: “You have secured a much better deal than we pensioners could possibly have expected . . . I am relieved that I won’t be quite as bruised as feared.”...
...The one where the Co-op Group warned of “more severe adverse consequences” for creditors if they don’t take the restructuring of their claims into shares (ie nationalisation)....
...Bailey didn’t reply to Taber’s follow-up letter to that....
...Mr Taber is not the only one who is cross at the Co-op’s attitude to the bondholders....
...The PRA could still have extended its powers of direction to the Co-operative Banking Group, the Bank’s immediate holding company, PRA chief Andrew Bailey told campaigner Mark Taber in a letter this month...
...Exactly how many shares these investors will receive is unknown and the details of what investors will get won’t be released until October....
...Other commentators have pointed out that Co-op Bank’s recent behaviour hasn’t looked all that ethical....
...The “bail-in” deal involves the bank being listed on the London Stock Exchange and means that the wider Co-op Group won’t have to sell off more assets or call on taxpayer funds....
...“There are quite a few clinics operating below the barriers that we wouldn’t want as members,” says Sally Taber, director of Independent Healthcare Advisory Services, a trade body for larger clinics, which...
...This simply isn’t new — it’s been obvious that equity would be protected since a law was passed on sub debt exchanges last year — but the more the government does it, and adds “equity alternatives” to coerce...
...Taber and Weaver pack a lot of specious subtexts into this piece and its title....
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