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Do Activists Beat the Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Mary Ann Deignan, Rich Thomas, and Kathryn Night, Lazard, on Tuesday, August 1, 2023 Editor's Note: Mary Ann Deignan is Head of Capital Markets Advisory, and Rich Thomas and Kathryn Night are Managing Directors in the Capital Markets Advisory group at Lazard. This post is based on a Lazard memorandum by Ms.

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

Harvard Corporate Governance

As private corporations have found it easier in recent years to raise capital from the private markets, the number of public firms listed on U.S. Why tap public investors for finance, and become exposed to burdensome regulation and the vicissitudes of the public markets, when growth can be sustained with private capital?

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Inaugural Report on the Health of Democratic Capitalism

Harvard Corporate Governance

The goal of the Denny Center Inaugural Report on the Health of Democratic Capitalism is to evaluate how well the benefits of free market capitalism are balanced with the needs and expectations of a democratic society, focusing primarily on the United States.

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Dissecting the Long-Term Performance of the Chinese Stock Market

Harvard Corporate Governance

The Chinese stock market started in 1990 with the establishment of two domestic stock exchanges (the “A share” market): the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE hereafter) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE). The A share market is the second largest in the world in terms of total market capitalization, trailing only the US equity markets.

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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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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year.

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The Credit Suisse Collapse and the Regulation of Banking

Harvard Corporate Governance

Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Self-Fulfilling Credit Market Freezes by Lucian Bebchuk and Itay Goldstein. Credit Suisse, one of the world’s largest 30 banks with assets exceeding $500 billion, melted down earlier this month.

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