Immaterial Possessions
If an asset is weightless, colorless, and odorless, and leaves no trace on the balance sheet, does it exist? You would not expect...
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ESG Archive
How they do it at AES CORP
Investor Relations magazine sometimes stumbles unknowingly into the crossfire of turf wars when we approach an IR department famed...
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Latin America's Next Wave
Latin America again looms bright on the radar screens of US investors. While huge privatizations still make the biggest impact...
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Down with Dinosaurs
A proxy advisor surveying the proxy season says business will pick up - if the market doesnt go south.' He remembers the last...
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Quacks and Leeches
Last year, near Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, archeologists discovered a field blessed with unusually rich soil. When they set...
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City Profile: Spotlight on Amsterdam
Amsterdam is a city which is full of financial contrasts. On the one hand, you've got open flows of capital, and on the other...
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Curse or Opportunity
Little strikes fear into the hearts of corporate management as much as the annual meeting. The yearly rite of passage is often...
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Proxy 1997
America's companies are bracing themselves for another rough ride on the frontiers of corporate governance. With the number of...
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Chewing the Qat in Yemen
Winston Churchill once illustrated the comparatives, bad, worse, worst, with a parallel, 'lies, damned lies and statistics.' I was...
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Trouble in the Aisles
A year is not a long time in the shifting sands of corporate governance. So the Archer Daniels Midland Company's continuing...
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