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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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Private equity tests markets with a mammoth debt-fuelled dividend

Financial Times M&A

Company backed by investors including Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Hellman & Friedman prepares €4.4bn dividend

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Share Repurchases on Trial: Large-Sample Evidence on Market Outcomes, Executive Compensation, and Corporate Finances

Harvard Corporate Governance

There are several reasons why corporations might prefer using share repurchases instead of or in addition to dividends, including (i) maintaining flexibility in determining the amount of cash returned to shareholders, (ii) an ability to award repurchased shares to employees as equity compensation, (iii) a modest tax advantage to shareholders (that (..)

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Data Update 9 for 2025: Dividends and Buybacks - Inertia and Me-tooism!

Musings on Markets

I also look at a clear and discernible shift away from dividends to stock buybacks, especially in the US, and examine both good and bad reasons for this shift. Some of that cash will be held back in the company as a cash balance, but the balance can be returned either as dividends or in buybacks.

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Share Buybacks and Executive Compensation: Assessing Key Criticisms

Harvard Corporate Governance

In 2003, the SEC amended rules that provided companies with a safe harbor from liability for market manipulation for stock repurchases or buybacks as long as the buybacks were conducted in accordance with the rules. more…)

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African Banking Roundtable: New Focus On Capital Markets

Global Finance

The conversation followed up on our discussion last year of the exit of some foreign banks from African markets and the new emphasis this places on the expansion of domestic banks, including pan-African institutions. How is this playing out in your markets? We need foreign savings.

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Valuing a Nonprofit Business

BV Specialists

But what happens when the entity in question is a nonprofit organization, one with no shareholders, no dividends, and no motive to generate profit? Suppose there is any similar nonprofit company market data available. The market approach may likely be limited or non-applicable, given the uniqueness of many nonprofits.