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News & Events
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11-Jun-2008
Good boardroom practice requires more than law and regulation: judgement, diplomacy and integrity. This book provides practical help for boards that navigate their way from principles to practice. It aims to describe how boards can practice good corporate governance in reality. This initiative reflects the importance that the OECD attaches to the private sector as a force in implementing good corporate governance.
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22-May-2008
On 16 April 2008, the OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance invited representatives from the activist hedge fund industry and other activist investors to discuss potential policy issues including their use of shareholders rights (such as board nomination), the impact of their activism on market abuses prevention, the scope for shareholder cooperation into the light of “acting in concert” regulations, as well as the use of derivatives instruments to boost investors’ voting power.
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07-Feb-2008
At its meeting on 14 November 2007, the Steering Group on Corporate Governance agreed on a common position based on the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance about the issue of whether there should be proportionality between ownership and control (also known as one-share-one-vote) in listed companies.
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12-Oct-2007
The Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance reviewed institutional investors’ experience and their influence on corporate governance when it met on 10-11 October, 2007 in Colombia. Finding some promising practice but significant shortcomings, they agreed to develop White Paper recommendations to encourage more engaged and informed ownership. The Roundtable also reviewed experience with voluntary corporate governance codes.
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23-Jul-2007
The OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance has released today the studies it requested on the role of alternative investors in corporate governance.
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05-Jun-2007
The OECD Steering Group has concluded that “activist” hedge funds and private equity firms can play a positive role in corporate governance of publicly held companies and that specific issues are best addressed within the framework of the existing OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.
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05-Jun-2007
OECD countries have agreed that the corporate governance practices of private equity firms and hedge funds are best addressed within the framework of the existing OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.
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04-Dec-2006
The OECD has taken an important step to reinforce the role of its Principles of Corporate Governance as a global standard by issuing guidance for users in assessing their implementation. The Principles, agreed by governments in 1999 and revised in 2004, are designed to maintain public trust in companies and stock markets.
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17-Oct-2006
Corporate governance is improving in Turkey but some key issues, including the potential for unfair treatment of minority shareholders, need to be tackled if Turkish firms are to take full advantage of opportunities to grow in coming years, according to a new OECD report.
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Events
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from 17-May-2004 to 18-May-2004
The OECD presented the draft of a new report on corporate governance in the region which provides a comprehensive overview of the legal framework, actual practice and reform priorities. The meeting discussed the 2004 OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and corporate governance reform in Ukraine.
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