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Outside the Box: Active managers see value in these 3 company practices but indexers hate them. Who’s right?

Every corporation is unique. It follows that governance arrangements should be tailored to suit. Yet many shareholders, especially indexers, roundly condemn certain governance practices as if one size fits all.  Three corporate practices illustrate this: combining the roles of chairman and chief executive; staggered director terms, and classes of stock …

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: ETFs still aren’t active enough… but they’re getting there

iStockphoto One simple statistic goes a long way toward summing up the state of play in actively-managed exchange-traded funds: the share of all ETFs run by active managers has increased a whopping 50% over the past 12 months: to 3%, according to data from CFRA/Frist Bridge, from 2% last year. …

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