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There certainly has been plenty to interest and perplex Australia’s corporate communications professionals in 2017. Front and centre was ongoing media and political attention on the big banks. The ongoing question (and subsequent confirmation) of a full royal commission saw the ABA strengthen its team with some heavy political campaigning…
In 2016, the geopolitics of Putin will remain the defining feature of Russia at home and abroad. Deteriorating economic conditions may drive the Kremlin to a more extreme position rather than reconciliation. Over the past year and a half, the majority of headlines covering Russia were defined by geopolitics. President…
Initial Lessons from Las Vegas: A discussion between William Bratton, Executive Chairman, Risk Advisory and Kevin Kajiwara, Co-President, Political Risk Advisory William (“Bill”) J. Bratton, Executive Chairman of Teneo's Risk Advisory, and former Commissioner of the NYPD, spoke with Teneo's Political Risk Advisory Co-President, Kevin Kajiwara, about the security implications…
The 15 October general elections have returned the expected victory for Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz and his center-right People’s Party (OVP). The outcome will most likely be the formation of a right-of-center government with the far-right Freedom Party (FPO). As discussed before, an OVP-FPO government would focus on identity issues…
As most public companies approach the start of Proxy Season 2017, investor voting policies and the hottest trends in corporate governance are important content that highlight issues companies will face at their annual meetings. Equally important are the practical considerations for how to navigate the proxy advisors, engage with investors,…
General Raymond Odierno retired in 2015 as the 38th Chief of Staff of the Army. His four decades of military service included a command role in the Persian Gulf War and three deployments to the Iraq War. His troops captured Saddam Hussein in 2003 and his direction of…
In 1933, President Roosevelt issued his famous call to war against the Great Depression. He rallied the nation with his ringing declaration, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Much has changed since then, yet FDR’s rallying cry may be more relevant than ever. At that time,…
“The rumble was distant, but spoke with one voice that said Change, and those whose business was government could not help but hear.” Barbara Tuchman — The Proud Tower, A Portrait of the World Before the War Not for the first time, the relatively small network of institutions and individuals…
A Fundamental Shift is Underway Between Corporations and Shareholders After several years of unprecedented growth, both in the number of players and in assets under management, activists appear to be heading towards yet another down cycle. A number of factors are contributing to this including some high profile failures, an…
When Matthias Müller addressed his first shareholder meeting as Chief Executive of Volkswagen, he began with an apology. Speaking to thousands of small shareholders and representatives of large institutional investors in Hanover’s vast ‘Deutsche Messe’ exhibition hall, Müller acknowledged that VW was facing the biggest crisis in its history. The…
Within the next decade, most of the names on S&P 500 will drop off and be replaced by new ones. In the 1930’s, the average lifespan of a company on the S&P 500 (or the S&P Composite Index, as it was known until 1957) was 60 years, in the 1960’s…
A Dynamic But Disruptive Breakthrough At a recent private gathering in Virginia of leading biologists and geneticists, an unusual topic of conversation was the specific date of November 3, 1988. It was on that date that MIT graduate student, Robert Morris, launched the first malware attack on a system that…
