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Murder on the City Express – Who is Killing the London Stock Exchange’s Equity Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

peers on at least one significant measure – the market capitalization to Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) ratio. exchanges have seen a consistent rise in the aggregate market capitalization to GDP ratio since at least 2017, the equivalent metric for the U.K. As we underscored in a previous paper , while the U.S.

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Tornetta v. Musk: Post-Trial Opinion

Harvard Corporate Governance

For a tranche to vest, Tesla’s market capitalization must increase by $50 billion and Tesla must achieve either an adjusted EBITDA target or a revenue target in four consecutive fiscal quarters. With a $55.8 billion maximum value and $2.6

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The Credit Suisse Collapse and the Regulation of Banking

Harvard Corporate Governance

Four days later, however, with CS facing significant withdrawals, SNB chose not to provide additional liquidity but instead forced CS to sell itself on Sunday March 19 to UBS for less than half of the market capitalization CS had just several days ago.

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The Venture Corporation

Harvard Corporate Governance

Firms that launched as venture-backed startups dominate US capital markets in terms of market capitalization and proportional weight of leading market indexes, and significantly contribute to US job creation. In some nations, startups are also significant contributors to the economy.

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2022 Proxy Season Review: Rule 14a-8 Shareholder Proposals

Harvard Corporate Governance

market capitalization, at meetings held on or before June 30, 2022. The Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposals we discuss are those submitted to and/or voted on at annual meetings of the U.S. members of the S&P Composite 1500, which covers approximately 90% of U.S. We estimate that around 90% of U.S.

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Smart money? Retail investors, intrinsic investors, and the Magnificent Seven

Mckinsey and Company

Retail investors are investing more of their capital in companies that have the highest market capitalizations. Intrinsic investors are taking a different approach.

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Discretionary Investing by ‘Passive’ S&P 500 Funds

Harvard Corporate Governance

These deviations amount to over $60 billion in discretionary investment decisions, roughly equivalent to Target Corporation’s entire market capitalization. We analyze funds that track the S&P 500 – the most widely used index – and find their holdings regularly diverge from the index’s, by between 1.7% more…)