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CFO
July 1, 2007
Michelle Leder |
Drowning in Data The new compensation disclosure rules deliver plenty of information. Too bad much of it doesn't make sense. Clearly, CFOs have more responsibilities than ever before, the annual proxy statement being just one.   |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2006
Portal & Hilzenrath |
New SEC Proposed Guidelines to Give Investors a Clear View at Executive Compensation REITs should conduct a thorough review of current compensation policies and practices and evaluate them in light of the new disclosure proposals. For some REITs, a complete overhaul of the compensation program may be necessary. |
CFO
October 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
Pay Dirt As the SEC shines a light on executive compensation, will companies clean up their acts or find new ways to hide excess? |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010
Patrick McGurn |
CEO Pay and the SEC: The Power of Shame New SEC Chair Schapiro seems willing to subject CEOs to good old-fashioned public humiliation -- an encouraging development |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2008
Tim Beyers |
The SEC Has a New IDEA The Securities and Exchange Commission unveils IDEA, a successor to the EDGAR database that stores filings for thousands of U.S. companies and foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges. |
CFO
February 1, 2008
Kate Plourd |
What's in Your Wallet? The CD&A gives investors a better view of executive pay. It could also give CFOs a raise. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Your Own Personal Deep Throat Do you know all there is to know about the stocks you own? The government does. You can, too. EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval) is an investor's best friend. |
CFO
April 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
Keeping It to Themselves Companies are dragging their feet on adhering to the SEC's expanded compensation-disclosure requirements. |
InternetNews
December 15, 2006
Roy Mark |
SEC Brings Proxies Online Shareholders will soon be able to find proxy statements and annual reports online, according to new voluntary rules approved this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
CFO
June 1, 2008
Alan Rappeport |
Suddenly, It's Here The SEC votes unanimously to soon require companies to file data-tagged financial statements. The move seems certain to breathe new life into XBRL (extensible business reporting language), the data-tagging scheme for financial reports. |
CFO
March 15, 2006
Julia Homer |
Going Public Perhaps nothing symbolizes the complete emergence of the CFO as a public figure more than the SEC's decision to require disclosure of CFO compensation in proxy statements. |
Registered Rep.
September 21, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Banks Officially Welcomed into the Brokerage World Under New SEC Rule It only took eight years, but the SEC and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System passed final rules defining how banks can act as securities brokers. |
U.S. Banker
November 2005 |
Executive Compensation & The Boardroom Dilemma Investors shouldn't have to sift through every number on a proxy statement to determine total executive compensation. Now the SEC wants all payouts and perks -- including costs for corporate jets and housing -- out in plainer view. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
A Shiny New Year for CEO Pay Disclosure While the EDGAR database has gone a while without any major innovations, there's finally some good news to report. It has now upped its functionality by a long shot by offering a new XBRL enhancement. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Meet the SEC If you're an investor, you have a friend. His name is EDGAR (the acronym for the database hosted by the Securities and Exchange Commission). |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Fuqi International Shares Popped: What You Need to Know I am wary of any company being investigated by the SEC, so watch that you don't get caught in an avalanche if it finds something. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
SEC May Look at CEO Pay It is encouraging to see some pension fund managers and the SEC taking action on pay for performance among top executives, but shareholder shouldn't get too happy. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2008
Lisa Roth |
Straight Talk Given the SEC's proposal on a plain-English online Form ADV 2 disclosure brochure, now is the time for advisors to brush up on their language skills. |
The Motley Fool
December 19, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Who Really Gets Rich Off Investment Banks? The answer may surprise you. |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
From Corporate Excess to Excessive Embarrassment Sheer humiliation could be a great tool to push for better corporate behavior from executives at Bank of America. |
CFO
May 1, 2010
Sarah Johnson |
The SEC Has a Few Questions for You This is the envelope no CFO looks forward to opening, even if the inquiry proves to be fairly routine. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2007
Nathan Parmelee |
Board Members With Backbones at TNCC Three of 13 members quit over executive compensation issues. Then there is the suspicious timing of the release of those resignations, and a Nasdaq notification of compliance problems. What's going on at Tennessee Commerce Banking anyway? |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Will the SEC Protect Proxy Access? Investors of all stripes should keep an eye on next week's ruling. |
BusinessWeek
March 20, 2006
Anne Tergesen |
How Much Are Execs Really Paid? The Securities & Exchange Commission recently proposed sweeping changes to the disclosure of executive compensation. |
Registered Rep.
April 7, 2005
Kristen French |
NASD Advocates More Disclosure, Less Paper Broker/dealers and their reps may get a big break on point-of-sale disclosure if the Securities and Exchange Commission heeds recent NASD advice. |
CFO
June 1, 2009
Reason & Stuart |
Crackdown Alert After a GAO report documents a slowdown in the SEC's case generation and penalty volume under former chairman Christopher Cox, the regulator's new leaders talk tough. |
Registered Rep.
January 9, 2007
John Churchill |
To Hedge Gets Harder The SEC proposed a rule in December that would raise the net worth requirements of investors in hedge funds to $2.5 million from $1 million, not including the value of one's home. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
Barry Rehfeld |
Another Tough Top Cop? When President Bush tapped Christopher Cox to replace William Donaldson, it looked like Bush was swapping an aggressive reformer for a kinder, gentler regulator. Yet since he took over as SEC chairman, Cox has shown that he is not the anti-Donaldson. |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Plenty of Options at Yahoo! The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decreed that companies must begin expensing options this June -- a move that will make many of us watch the options-friendly tech giants such as Yahoo!, where there may be some chilling impacts to earnings. |
InternetNews
April 27, 2006
Roy Mark |
Ignoring Net Neutrality, Expanding USF House passes anti-pretexting bill... Cox touts XBRL... etc. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2007
Lawrence Rothman |
TurboChef Wastes Fuel Marketing costs and an SEC inquiry sap money from the cooking-systems company. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
September 2, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Lessons From Looters Looking at Hollinger International, the world's third largest newspaper group, tells you all you need to know about companies that should never make it into your portfolio. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 19, 2011
Carmen Nobel |
Activist Board Members Increase Firm's Market Value Public company shareholders have long complained that corporate boards don't always act in the best interest of their investors. But does the addition of a shareholder-sponsored board member increase the market value of the firm? |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 10, 2003 |
Do High Regulatory Costs Force Public Firms to Go Private? Steps aimed at increasing the financial transparency of U.S. companies could backfire if companies respond by going private instead. In these post-Enron, post-WorldCom times, that would deal a body blow to confidence in capital markets. |
InternetNews
July 8, 2009
Andy Patrizio |
Apple Faces SEC Probe on Jobs Health Disclosure The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Apple's handling of CEO Steve Jobs's health problems. |
Investment Advisor
June 2007
Melanie Waddell |
SEC Furthers Tool for Investors, While Frank Plans Hearings The SEC is working on an interactive system using the computer language called XBRL that's designed to give investors the tools they need to more easily compare mutual funds. |
InternetNews
May 31, 2007
Clint Boulton |
SEC Settles Backdating Cases With Mercury, Brocade The Securities and Exchange Commission settled stock-option backdating cases with Mercury Interactive and Brocade Communications Systems totaling $35 million. |
CFO
September 1, 2010
Sarah Johnson |
SEC Pushes Companies for More Risk Info The regulator pushes back on companies' risk disclosures and considers changing its related rules. |
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2005 |
Selective Disclosure, Explained The SEC instituted a "Fair Disclosure" rule that prohibited public companies from alerting analysts and major investors to important changes before disclosing that information to the general public. So what has happened since the rule went into effect? |
Wired
February 2002
Adam Lashinsky |
The Post-Enron Economy Sometimes it takes a meltdown to force regulators into action... |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
A Pivotal Proxy Season With shareholders more awake and aware than they've been in years, the latest proxy season could begin to fundamentally change managers' attitudes. |
BusinessWeek
December 3, 2007
Nanette Byrnes |
Proxies: The SEC's Stopgap Solution Chairman Cox indicates he'll vote against shareholder access to corporate proxies, but the agency will revisit the issue next year. |
Information Today
August 21, 2008 |
SEC Announces a New IDEA--The Successor to EDGAR Based on a completely new architecture being built from the ground up, it will at first supplement and then eventually replace the EDGAR system. |
Wall Street & Technology
February 27, 2005
Beth Bacheldor |
A Watchdog to Watch In his first CIO job, Corey Booth, just 34 years old, is leading the IT department of one of the country's most closely watched and influential government agencies: the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Wall Street Pays for Performance As proxy statements roll out from Wall Street's finest, we're getting the full picture of just how much bank accounts are being padded. |
InternetNews
June 5, 2007
Clint Boulton |
IBM, SEC Come to Terms Over Financial Gripe IBM settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission today for issuing misleading statements about the impact of employee stock options on its 2005 earnings. |
BusinessWeek
May 14, 2009
Maria Bartiromo |
SEC Chief Mary Schapiro: The Watchdog's New Teeth A discussion with with the new SEC Chief Mary Schapiro. |
Bank Director
1st Quarter 2010
Deborah Scally |
The Year Ahead for Compensation Key issues and highlights from Bank Director's 2009 Bank Executive and Board Compensation Conference. |
BusinessWeek
April 5, 2004
Paula Dwyer |
Mutual Funds: Carpe Diem, Congress The SEC can't restructure the industry by itself, and legislators are dawdling |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005
Amy Borrus |
The SEC: Cracking Down On Spin The Securities & Exchange Commission is going after executives for skimpy or misleading disclosures in annual reports. |
