Corporate sleuths uncover what the spreadsheets miss
The Argyle Group gathers off-market intelligence for private investors and corporates to expose the unstated agendas and risks that standard audits miss.
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The Argyle Group gathers off-market intelligence for private investors and corporates to expose the unstated agendas and risks that standard audits miss.
The meeting requires support from at least 50 per cent of DDIT’s investors and is expected to be held before end of the year, according to a copy of Wednesday’s letter obtained by this column.
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One model invented details about the user’s financial circumstances, such as their salary, and hallucinated $100,000 of assets that did not exist.
Despite an underlying loss of more than $100 million and warnings from credit agencies, the service has handed its outgoing boss a $1.36 million pay bump.
Sequana is showing no signs of slowing down its M&A spree with the latest purchase coming on the heels of two bolt-ons last year.
Andreas Fouras has slammed the proxy firms after all the medical imaging company’s pay resolutions were soundly defeated at its AGM on Wednesday.
Ingenia’s boss parlays anger over his plans to acquire Peet, which sent Ingenia’s share price plummeting, into a competition between two cashed-up buyers.
Washington DC residents will next week vote on a potential ban of foie gras. Butterworth’s chef Bart Hutchins says the idea is “historically illiterate”.
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America’s affordability crisis and corruption are now treated as two sides of the same coin as voters head to the ballot box next week.
America’s affordability crisis and corruption are now treated as two sides of the same coin as voters head to the ballot box next week.
Analysts see it as yet another bullet point on a growing list of worrying signs about financial markets and the Asian nation’s economy. Pity Jim Chalmers.
Two major food-and-beverage brands cut ties with the France captain after a video circulated online showing the player apparently laughing off internet memes.