Change should rest on consensus, they say, and the need for two-thirds support would protect minority interests.
Times not only shows the deep discounts minority interests are given compared with controlling stakes because the investors have no say in how the teams are run.
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But, how does a people hit the reset button when it requires at least 51 percent agreeing to do so and any such systemic reset will always run counter to the short-run interests of some majority agglomeration of minority interests?
Wilpon and Katz have insisted they are not going to give up control of the team or sell their 68% stake in SportsNet New York, the regional sports channel they control, and Time Warner and Comcast own the minority interests.
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Petrobras, a state-controlled oil giant, and Vale, the world's biggest iron-ore producer, are now being run more to suit government aims than in minority shareholders' interests, says Joseph Harper of Explorador Capital Management, a fund manager.
Miscellaneous and unremunerated interests: Minority partner in The Djanogly Family LLP (member of Lloyd's).
They are designed to protect the interests of minority investors, improve the accountability of companies and maximise shareholder value.
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Many who have not been convicted of fraud have nevertheless run their business empires with scant regard for the interests of minority shareholders.
Mr Tato gained the ability to play off the interests of minority shareholders against the government, something he has done with great skill.
The only thing that matters now about Clearwire is who is going to buy it or whether the Special Committee willl actually do anything to protect the interests of minority shareholders.
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At the same time, the two foreign-led private-equity groups are busy sweet-talking Netcom, apparently offering the firm up to 50% of whatever assets they end up with more or less for nothing, thus diluting their own interests to minority status.
To protect Pearson's interests as a minority shareholder, if Bertelsmann declines a Pearson offer to sell its entire shareholding, Pearson may require a recapitalisation by which Penguin Random House raises debt of up to 3.5x EBITDA, with a dividend distributed to shareholders in line with their ownership.
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For so long as Britain remains in a minority outside the monetary union, its interests (such as the City of London bond markets) will be fair game for the majority inside it.
Some of this might be delegated by private interests, though likely in a minority role.
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Moreover, in many emerging economies, the law offers minority investors little protection against corporate insiders who do not have their interests at heart.
This introduces its own perverse incentives, particularly to sacrifice to broader political calculations the interests of the sickest and most costly, always a small minority not nearly fully aware of the scope of possible medical alternatives.
On Friday, the Canadian Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling made in late-May that the sale of BCE (nyse: BCE - news - people ) to the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and its minority U.S. partners didn't adequately consider bondholders' interests.
Make no mistake about it, it is in the best interests of managers to argue against directed brokerage programs, such as minority and recapture programs.
Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, whose district includes Newtown, said he felt he was representing the interests of the Sandy Hook victims as he cast his vote.
The same poll found that a clear majority (58%) believed America had a moral obligation to help keep the peace in Kosovo, whereas only a minority (42%) was persuaded that America ought to get involved to protect its national interests.
In the case of Korea, it is the divergence of interests between the monopoly position of the chaebols and their customers, between the families and minority investors and between the allocation of public and financial resources to the chaebols and other parts of the economy.
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