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Proxy Monitor
Provider of proxy research, vote recommendations and voting agent services for institutional investors.

 
Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance™
An international site with information and resources for corporate governance. Developed at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

 
Kennesaw State University's Corporate Governance Center
Provider of corporate governance information to directors, researchers, professors, advisors and other interested parties.

 
American Capital Strategies: ESOP Services
American Capital Strategies is a specialty finance company that provides debt and equity financing for small and medium-sized businesses.

 
Investor Responsibility Research Center
Source of impartial, independent research on corporate governance, proxy voting and corporate responsibility issues.

 
Motley Fool
Site designed to educate, amuse, and enrich the individual investor.

 
Corporate Governance - Best Practices
Provide assistance to developing transition economies on corporate governance. From the World Bank. Headquartered in New York.

 
Corporate Governance.net
Provides news, internet links, a reference library and a discussion forum for the movement to enhance wealth through increased accountability by creating more democratic forms of corporate governance and corporate monitoring.

 
Mutual Fund Investor's Center
Designed to serve as a resource for investors who want to use mutual funds to reach their financial goals, this site provides lists of mutual fund companies, website links, fund listings and exclusive planning, tracking and monitoring tools.

 
Corporate Governance Institute
Education and research center dedicated to the study and application of corporate governance principles.

 
Online Investor
Research tool to help individuals make educated investment decisions.

 
Free Cash Flow, Equity Finance and Corporate Control
Analysis of financial contracts that provide pay-incentives and impose constraints on management.

 
Asset Alternatives Inc.
Asset Alternatives newsletters, directories, research reports, and conferences are the premiere source of news, information, and networking for the private equity industry.

 
Institute of Management and Administration
The Institue of Management & Administration is located in New York city. It publishes a broad range of information products for business professionals. This site provides links to businesses in 16 industry sections.

 
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
EDGAR: Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System (SEC) - database of companies required by law to file with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC).

 
Strategic Response to Investor Activism
Abstract by Andrew Hoffman in Sloan Management Review, Winter 1996.

 
CalPERS Shareowners Forum
Bibliographic database comprising much of the history of the development of corporate governance.

 
Investor Relations Information Network (IRI)
Site where investors, shareholders, and money managers have instant access to companies' annual reports, quarterlies, fact books and press releases in their original format.

 
GPO Access
Provides online access to more than 1,000 databases of US government information. Users can search databases on the specialized search pages and perform fielded searches, such as limiting results by date or by section of any database.

 
ADP Investor Communication Services
Comprehensive Internet program for public corporations to communicate with shareholders as well as prospective investors.

 
Links to Mutual Fund Websites
Provided by Global Securities Information, Inc.

 
Conference Board: Global Corporate Governance
This center brings together senior leaders of corporations, institutional investors and public entities to shape international research on major corporate governance issues.

 
Nextance: Corporate Governance Software
Provides enterprise software for managing contracts, commitments, and related business processes to Global 2000 companies and public organizations.

 
Brookings Project: Corporations and Human Capital
A private, independent, nonprofit research organization that seeks to improve the performance of American institutions, the effectiveness of government programs, and the quality of U.S. public policies.

 
Investor Guide
Free, comprehensive online guide to investing and personal finance.

 
Informed Investors Forum
Site provides resources for in-depth sector-anlysis and online and offline industry-specific investment conferences which allow individual investors to have contact with public companies executives and industry experts.

 
Transparency International
International coalition against corruption in international business transactions which supports just and honest government policy.

 
Forbes Group: Information Central
Provides articles and columns by Forbes Group Principals about the business of governing and managing trade and professional associations and nonprofits.

 
World Bank Group: Corporate Governance
Infomration from the World Bank on corporate governance.

 
Business Roundtable on Corporate Governance
The Corporate Governance Task Force focuses on issues related to corporate governance and responsibilities, including accounting standards.

 
Carver Policy Governance Model
The Policy Governance® model is a universal theory of governance —a paradigm of principles and concepts which enables boards to ensure that organizations achieve board-stated goals and conduct themselves with probity.

 
What Is Corporate Governance?
Article that defines corporate governance.

 
International Co-operatie Alliance (ICA)
Clearing house of information on co-operatives worldwide and from all sectors.

 
Stakeholder Claims and Corporate Governance
An explanation of a 'stakeholder economy' and what the concept means in today's economy.

 
GE: Investor Information
Corporate overview offering 124 years of innovation and product development. Provides announcements of latest corporate offerings and product centers.

 
Corporate Watch
On-line magazine that produces regular features about the role of corporations in social, political and economic and environmental issues.

 
Center for Corporate Governance: Dartmouth University
The Center for Corporate Governance conducts research and offers teaching programs aimed at understanding how international differences in contract laws, capital markets, and ownership structures affect the design of an efficient governance syst.

 
Artemis: Corporate Governance Solutions
Helps businesses define and enforce a governance structure that provides effective controls, accountability and risk management.

 
Thompson Financial Securities Data (TFSD)
Worldwide Merger & Acquisitions database covers transactions and is used by investment banks, law firms, and media outlets around the world. Updated daily, the data goes back to 1979 (U.S.) or 1985 (non-U.S.) and covers more than 273,000 transac.

 
Morevalue.com
Links for resources in corporate governance.

 
CorpFiNet
Corporate Finance Network provides news, information and links related to the corporate finance world.

 
Does Coordinated Institutional Shareholder Activism Work?
An Analysis of the Council of Institutional Investors, by Tim C. Opler and Jonathan Sokobin, Ohio State University and Southern Methodist University, May 1998.

 
Pension Research Council
Generates debate on policy issues affecting pensions and other employee benefits. Located at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

 
Corporate Library, The
Intended to serve as a central repository for research, study and critical thinking about the nature of the modern global corporation, with a special focus on corporate governance and the relationship between company management and their boards .

 
Investor Protection Trust
Serves as an independent source of non-commercial investor education materials and assiss in the prosecution of securities fraud.

 
Mutual Funds Interactive
Independent guide to mutual funds. Also, provides mutual fund articles, mutual fund news, money manager profiles and market analysis.

 
InvestorForce.com: Public Funds Corner
Provides summary and detailed information on 130 US public pension funds as well as articles and research pertinent to public fund management and administration.

 
Bureau of National Affairs
Leading publisher of print and electronic news and information covering health care, business, labor relations, law, economics, taxation, environmental protection, safety, and other public policy and regulatory issues.

 
University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives (UWCC)
Provides extension/outreach and research programs directed at all aspects of cooperative business principles, organizing coopera-tives, cooperative financing, cooperative structure, cooperative management, leadership and governance.

 
FinanceNet: improving accountability of taxpayer resources
Improving accountability of taxpayer resources: US government's official home for all world government sales, auctions, surplus, for government newsgroups, and for improving financial management in governments worldwide.

 
Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
The mission of the Economic Policy Institute is to provide high-quality research and education in order to promote a prosperous, fair, and sustainable economy.

 
Institutional Voting Information Service (IVIS)
Informational site from the Association of British Insurers which provides links to resources.

 
Disclosure: Global Access
Powerful integrated research tool designed for financial analysts, money managers, corporate leaders and professional researchers who require instant, desktop access to a full-range of critical company information.

 
The Tech Law Group (TLG): Corporate Governance
Offers legal counsel to start-up and emerging growth companies in areas such as operations and governance. Billing is flat-fee, not hourly.

 
Corporate Governance NETWork
Website providing news, internet links, a small reference library and a discussion forum for authorities in the field of corporate governance.

 
Ethics and Corporate Governance
A slide presentation explaining corporate governance.

 
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