corporate governance news from FierceFinance

From the sad irony department: CalPERS, long a force in the good corporate governance movement, has been saddled with an investment scandal of its own. Pensions & Investments reports CalPERS... Read more...

In the field of corporate governance, we live in interesting times. We're seeing some stunning moves to empower shareholders and hold directors more accountable. The Shareholder bill of rights is a... Read more...

Excluding the Bank of America shareholder vote, are most institutional investors--the ones that cannot charge performance fees, anyway--unable to hold managements' feet to the fire? AllAboutAlpha... Read more...

How should the stunning news from Bank of America's shareholder meeting be interpreted? Ken Lewis was stripped of his chairman title, though he remains CEO and president. There are two ways to look... Read more...

Andrew Gowers, former editor of the Financial Times, took a job as head of communications at Lehman Brothers--and got an up-close view of the shocking collapse. He bares it in The Times. It's not a... Read more...

The news that Goldman Sachs has just named Lakshmi Mittal--the corporate magnate and richest Asian on the planet--has prompted some praise from Breakingviews. The first... Read more...

It's in vogue these days for boards to split the CEO and chairman jobs in the name of good corporate governance. You would think it would be an easy sell at Morgan... Read more...

I'm still not sure what to make of the Stanley O'Neal news. The surprising part is that the Merrill Lynch board was supposed to be in O'Neal's hip pocket. So I guess this is a good sign as far as... Read more...

CalPERS, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, has been a trendsetter in many ways, in corporate... Read more...

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> Blackstone Group to sell buildings in San Francisco. Article
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