Fidelity still fighting independent chair rule
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Fidelity Investments hasn&#39;t given up its opposition to a rule that requires the boards of mutual funds to have an independent chair, and the senior US senator from New Hampshire is backing that effort.
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Fidelity Investments is welcoming new shareholders into its venerable Magellan fund after shutting them out for a decade. But, should you accept the invitation?
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WASHINGTON - Fidelity Investments, the world's largest mutual-fund manager, more than doubled its votes against corporate board nominees this year to object to executive severance packages and director absenteeism.
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The 108th Congress has been tough on the entertainment industry. Its broad legislative agenda aimed at protecting copyrights has so far failed to win approval, and its newly enacted tax loophole benefiting some of the studios has left some executives questioning the industry's leadership choices.
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Fidelity Investments' largest funds voted to oust Michael D. Eisner from the chairman's post at Walt Disney Co., in one of last year's biggest proxy battles, according to voting records the nation's largest mutual-fund firm has made public for the first time.
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Defendant companies and their insurers remain unable to agree with unions and trial lawyers on a funding level and a few other key issues in a proposed asbestos trust fund, so Congress may have to decide itself, a senior federal judge overseeing negotiations said yesterday.
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Even as the options-backdating scandal continues to grow, law firms that represent shareholders are struggling to find a foothold.
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By Crayton Harrison, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 14--Affiliated Computer Services Inc. didn't turn in its annual regulatory filing on time because it's still working on an internal investigation of its stock option practices, it said Thursday.
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As previously announced, KB Home's past stock option grant practices are  being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The  Department of Justice is also looking into these practices but has  informed KB Home that it is not a target of this investigation.
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The removal of the president of California&#39;s largest public pension fund has raised questions about whether pension funds, endowments and other big activist investors can keep wielding clout in corporate governance campaigns.
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Questions about management succession linger at Fidelity Investments despite a revamp that expands the role of Abigail Johnson, the daughter of Fidelityâs founder.
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Media & professional: Basic agreement reached over editorial independence but price yet to be settled.
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Business & money: Â· Walker review opts for voluntary code of conduct Â· Takeover firms are urged to be more open
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The US Chamber of Commerce filed suit Thursday against the Securities and Exchange Commission over the independent-chair rule for mutual fund boards.
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The family of Fidelity Investments chairman Edward C. "Ned" Johnson III is shrinking the ranks of private shareholders, a step that will help tighten its grip on the closely held firm and potentially allow it to lower Fidelity's corporate tax bill by hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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First it was Fidelity, the second-biggest mutual fund family in the United States. It announced 12 days ago that it was slashing the expense fees on five of its index funds.
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The New York Stock Exchange has quietly pushed back a plan that would prevent brokers from voting their clientsÂ shares in board elections when the stockholders have given no voting instructions of their own.