{"id":10669,"date":"2009-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"improving-hedge-fund-industry-corporate-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/improving-hedge-fund-industry-corporate-governance.html","title":{"rendered":"Improving Hedge Fund Industry Corporate Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; I saw today a very interesting article in the FT about the discussion going on at the SEC about a rule allowing US investors to nominate company directors. Companies at present nominate their own directors. Shareholders have the right to vote, but not to nominate any directors, except through a difficult process that requires them to mail shareholders at their own expense. The new rule would allow large shareholders such as pension funds to nominate up to a quarter of a company&rsquo;s board members.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/139527-improving-hedge-fund-industry-corporate-governance\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/139527-improving-hedge-fund-industry-corporate-governance\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking Alpha &#8211; I saw today a very interesting article in the FT about the discussion going on at the SEC about a rule allowing US investors to nominate company directors. Companies at present nominate their own directors. Shareholders have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6955,2436,4504,1555,6008,4532,5661],"class_list":["post-10669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-board-members","tag-company-directors","tag-investors","tag-pension-funds","tag-s-board","tag-seeking-alpha","tag-shareholders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}