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Can High ESG Ratings Help Sustain Dividend Growth?

Harvard Corporate Governance

For many, investing in the current market environment can be described as navigating uncharted waters. With US inflation running at a 40-year high and a rocky first half of the year for both equity and fixed income markets globally, uncertainty is high. more…).

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Share Buybacks and Executive Compensation: Assessing Key Criticisms

Harvard Corporate Governance

Key Takeaways While most S&P 500 companies conducting buybacks in 2018–2021 did not adjust performance goals or incentive awards to account for the lower share count post buyback, those conducting the largest buybacks tend to adjust goals or incentive awards to offset for the impact. more…)

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Tanzania: East Africa’s New Powerhouse

Global Finance

Apart from political stability and economic reforms, factors like strategic location, abundant natural resources, infrastructure expansion, investment incentives, and a growing local and regional market are among the factors making Tanzania quite attractive. Inflation (2024, projected): 3.2% Inflation (2024, projected): 3.2%

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Uzbekistan Minister Laziz Kudratov On Country’s Sweeping Economic Makeover

Global Finance

We have unified the exchange rate and liberalized the forex market, making it easier for international partners to do business here, including through public-private partnerships and outsourcing. Companies that are set up here can easily access key markets. billion in 2018 to $5.8 billion in 2023). Third is our reforms.

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Bhutan: The Happiness Economy

Global Finance

Bordered by China to the north and India to the east, west and south, the Himalayan nation installed a new government in January under Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, who returned to office after an earlier five-year stint that ended in 2018. Watson has a long history working in emerging markets, notably with H.J.

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Everything about Share Buybacks

Andrew Stolz

A company executes a share buyback when it pays out cash from its balance sheet to purchase its previously issued shares in the stock market or directly from shareholders. companies have distributed more money through buybacks than through dividends. 2018) looked at buybacks from 1998 to 2010 in 31 non-U.S.

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The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?

Musings on Markets

These ignored investment classes are what fall under the rubric of alternative investments, and while many of these choices have been with us for as long as we have had financial markets, they were accessible to only a small subset of investors for much of that period.

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