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Visions of financial grandeur at Aetna …

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Lawyers are a cautious bunch, but when it comes to the corporate sort, they also have a reputation for a certain dullness: They’re not exactly supposed to get carried away with flights of fancy, especially not when drafting public disclosures. So we were a little surprised to find a new risk factor listed on page [...]

Financial overhaul meets corporate governance …

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

The long-anticipated Wall Street reform bill just passed the U.S. Senate and is heading for President Obama’s desk. It still has a number of the investor-protection and corporate-governance provisions we mentioned before, but we were recently reminded that even some of the headline issues — bank capital standards, systemic-risk oversight, derivatives regulation — have a [...]