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CalPERS warns that Apple tempts downfall

One of the world’s most innovative and progressive companies, Apple, is the target of lobbying by CalPERS, demonstrating that dropping mandatory majority voting in director elections from the final version of the Dodd-Frank Act, hasn’t deterred shareowners from taking the matter into their own hands.
MIRANDA WARDFebruary 23, 2011
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Derivatives: sour grapes or Dodd-Frank victims?

While claims the Dodd-Frank Act will make the derivatives market prohibitively expensive could be seen as a case of sour grapes from a market unregulated until now, a committee reviewing the Act has asserted that end-users of derivatives, including pension funds, will bear the brunt of the new laws.
MIRANDA WARDFebruary 16, 2011