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South Korean companies are facing increasing shareholder activism with the government's recent push for improvements in corporate governance expected to fuel the trend, according to industry experts on Thursday. A report released Thursday by Diligent Market Intelligence, a solution from governance software provider Diligent, showed a record-high number of 77 companies headquartered in Korea were targeted by acti...

The group of investors who bet against companies hoping their stocks will fall suffered more than $145 billion in losses this year.

Large investment pools next year will have to report substantial positions in a stock much quicker.

Political observers searching for clues to how Tuesday's state and local elections would turn out could have found them in another category of voting: shareholder votes on corporate culture issues.

Voters nearly universally rejected the Republican culture war Tuesday, and their distaste is an echo of shareholder votes favoring ESG issues.