The Active Shareholder: Exercising Your Rights, Increasing Your Profits, and Minimizing Your Risks

By William F. Mahoney

Takes an in-depth look at how individual investors can use their rights as shareholders to influence companies' policies and decisions. It provides a comprehensive examination of the relationship between shareholders, boards of directors and the power that various types of shares can exert on the boards. Covers the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations governing shareholder rights, profiles of companies that are and aren't shareholder responsive, voting rights and more. Explains what can and cannot be accomplished through the proxy process, illustrating this process with examples of actual proxy battles. Includes a resource guide to shareholder associations, sources of information on corporate earning patterns plus a state-by-state breakdown of shareholder laws.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471571008
• ISBN13: 9780471571001
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.1" x 6.3"