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5 Factors Impacting Activists’ Declining Success Rate

Harvard Corporate Governance

companies with market capitalizations of at least $100 million and where ISS and Glass Lewis published voting recommendations. While small sample sizes in any year can magnify differences in results, a longer-term look suggests a definite trend.

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Seaport Global Acquisition II Corp. and American Battery Materials Announce Definitive Business Combination Agreement to Create Nasdaq Listed Company

Benzinga

ABM is focused on supplying domestically-sourced critical minerals, with a particular focus on lithium, to global markets. The holders of outstanding ABM shares will receive equity in SGII valued at $160 million (subject to adjustments).

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

Not surprisingly, the company listings are across the world, and I look at the breakdown of companies, by number and market cap, by geography: As you can see, the market cap of US companies at the start of 2025 accounted for roughly 49% of the market cap of global stocks, up from 44% at the start of 2024 and 42% at the start of 2023.

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Ready Capital and Broadmark Realty Capital Announce Definitive Merger Agreement

Benzinga

(NYSE: BRMK ) ("Broadmark") , a specialty real estate finance company that specializes in originating and servicing residential and commercial construction loans, announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Broadmark will merge with Ready Capital.

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Poison Pills in a World of Activism and ESG

Reynolds Holding

Pill Trigger Thresholds Should Be Assessed Against Market Capitalization. The absence of an inverse correlation between market capitalization and trigger threshold is peculiar; in today’s world, what is relevant is the dollar stake an activist can acquire, not the threshold percentage. 5 billion market capitalization).

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

That generic definition is not only broad enough to cover a wide range of impact investing actions and motives, but has also been with us since the beginning of time. Impact Investing: The What, The Why and the How! Impact investments are investments made with the intent of generating benefits for society, alongside a financial return.

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Back to Earth or Temporary Setback? Revisiting the FANGAM Stocks

Musings on Markets

In the midst of all the action, to no one's surprise, have been six stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Apple and Microsoft or FANGAM) that have largely driven US equities for the last decade, roiling the market with their most recent earnings reports.