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    Are activist investors good news for shareholders?

    In the past few decades we've seen the rise and rise of the CEO. While entrepreneurs have always been lavishly rewarded, it's now common for those running established companies to get huge packages running into the millions, or even

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    'Fat cat Wednesday' for executives

    Top executives will have earned more money by mid-morning today than the average worker does in a year, making it "fat cat Wednesday", according to a new report. The High Pay Centre think tank said chief executives in the FTSE 100

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    US tops CEO list for major firms

    Young people who hope to end up at the helm of a major international company should head to the United States, France or Japan to study, according to research. A new league table has found that these three countries have the universities producing

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    International CEO 'myth' revealed

    Fewer than 1% of company chief executives are poached from overseas, and most are promoted from within the company, showing that justifications for high pay in the UK are a "self-serving myth", according a new report. A study of

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    Why Zuckerberg needs to step up - or step aside

    Before Facebook (NAS: FB) debuted on the Nasdaq, I said that I thought the company would be a good investment over a two-year period. So far, it has floundered. That's fine, and I expected that it would do so for a while. But one of the main

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    Head of embattled bank arrested

    Police in Vietnam have arrested the head of one of the country's largest banks as part of a widening probe into financial crimes. Asia Commercial Bank said it had halted lending as a result of the troubles at the bank, but it was otherwise

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    New York Times snaps up BBC boss

    Outgoing BBC director general Mark Thompson is to become president and chief executive of the New York Times Company, the US firm has said. Mr Thompson, 55, will relocate to New York and will begin his new role in