Small cap Archive

– There are no black executives in any of the top three roles at Britain’s 100 biggest companies, reported The Guardian. This is the first time in six years that the FTSE 100 has had no black executives holding CEO, CFO or chair positions, according to research from the executive recruitment and diversity consultancy agency ...

BNP Paribas expects US small caps to outperform large caps this year and doesn’t expect to see a corporate tax hike in the early stages of the Joe Biden presidency. With six days to go until the inauguration of Joe Biden as the next president of the US, representatives for BNP Paribas believe the markets have priced in the results of the election and that the Democratic sweep of the presidency, Senate and House of Representatives increases the likelihood of furthe...

At Home Group went public in 2016 and filed its first proxy statement in 2018. At that time ‘there was no color, no cover page, no bells or whistles, and we thought that was sufficient to cover our interests,’ says Meredith Hampton, vice president and associate general counsel of At Home. In 2019 the company faced its first say-on-pay vote and received only 49 percent support. It was a wake-up call that something needed to change, and the response was two-fold: ...

The outlook for equities is bullish with small caps, European stocks and emerging markets all tipped to outperform, according to a new report from BNP Paribas.  The bank says it is positioned for ‘risk-on’ across asset classes given the combination of effective Covid-19 vaccines, supportive central banks and expected fiscal stimulus. Equity strategists have redrawn their expectations for next year following last month’s news of three successful vaccine...