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Ex-Tata executives start fund to spur change at Indian firms

Bloomberg Some ex- Tata Group executives have teamed up with a veteran investor to seek to bring change at Indian companies, in a rare attempt to influence management in a country where shareholder activism has largely failed to take hold. Former Tata employees including Mukund Rajan and Govind Sankaranarayanan have partnered with Ajit Dayal, the founder of mutual fund firm ...

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Rare public protest flags investor anger in Hyflux slump

Bloomberg A rare public protest in Singapore underscored mounting anger among investors set to suffer sharp losses in one of the country’s highest-profile corporate debt restructurings. The catastrophic slump of the once-vaunted water and power company, Hyflux Ltd, has stunned debtholders, who stand to lose about 90 percent. About 400 to 500 of those individual investors gathered in a downtown ...

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Facebook CEO calls for internet regulations

Bloomberg Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg called for new global regulations governing the internet, recommending overarching rules on hateful and violent content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. In a statement that was also published as an op-ed in the Washington Post, Zuckerberg said the company is seeking regulations that would set baselines for prohibited content and require ...

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