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“AI and sustainability - cure or curse?”
While AI can help resolve data issues in sustainable investing, it can create problems such as information breaches and inherent bias in data.
Global | Publication | February 2016
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have published significant amendments to the Canadian take-over bid regime (the Amendments). The Amendments are an initiative of all CSA members and are intended to strike a fair balance between the interests of bidders, target boards of directors and security holders of target companies. The Amendments will come into force on May 9, 2016; however, legislative amendments in Ontario are necessary.
While the Amendments do not recognize a target board’s right to “just say no” to and block a hostile bid, they will provide boards of directors of target companies with additional time to respond to such bids and shareholders with the ability to make “voluntary, informed and coordinated” decisions as to whether to tender their securities to the bid.
The key provisions of the Amendments to the Canadian take-over bid regime will, upon coming into effect, require that:
We are preparing a more detailed analysis of these amendments – another update will follow.
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While AI can help resolve data issues in sustainable investing, it can create problems such as information breaches and inherent bias in data.
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In this edition of Regulation Around the World we review recent steps that financial services regulatory authorities have taken as regards investment research.
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We have had a new pension tax regime since April 6, 2024. The underlying legislation is convoluted and almost impossible for a lay person to follow, so you would be forgiven for thinking there was a lot to study. At the very granular level that is true, and your scheme administrators will have a lot of detailed changes to make to systems. However if you zoom out a bit, in many ways life hasn’t changed. We’ve done the poring over densely amended tax legislation for you. Here are the highlights: five things to know and three things to do.
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