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Do Activists Beat the Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Specifically, since 2018, the market has reacted positively to new activist situations, with attractive short-term share price outperformance, but relatively few activists have been able to sustain market-beating performance throughout the first year following a campaign launch. corporations are managed.

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ISS Discusses Largest Securities-Related Class Action Settlements of 2023

Reynolds Holding

In 2018 and 2019, Wells Fargo is alleged to have repeatedly told investors that it was implementing and developing the required governance reforms. in August 2019, wiping out about $36 billion in market capitalization. According to the complaint, the undisclosed cost cuts ultimately led to a massive $15.4

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AI's Winners, Losers and Wannabes: An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost!

Musings on Markets

The second is that much as I would like to claim credit for foresight and forward thinking, AI was not even a speck in my imagination when I bought these stocks (Microsoft in 2014 and NVIDIA in 2018). I just happened to be in the right place at the right time, a reminder again that being lucky often beats being smart, at least in markets.

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SEC Announces Enforcement Results for FY 2022

Reynolds Holding

These individuals included senior public company executives, such as Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s former CEO , who was charged with making materially misleading public statements about the safety of the company’s 737 MAX planes following crashes in 2018 and 2019, and Ronald D. Compass Minerals International Inc.