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Should You Buy the 3 Highest-Paying Dividend Stocks in the Dow Jones?

The Motley Fool

And just to add complexity, there's been an exposé about the telecom's use of lead in legacy cabling that could potentially lead to regulatory and legal headwinds. At the very least, more conservative investors might want to wait until the lead cable issue is better defined before buying the stock. There are two main problems.

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Convertible? Equity? What kind of coin should you use to scratch off a lottery ticket?

This is going to be BIG.

You’re out there scratching and clawing just trying to cobble together enough angel investor money to feed yourself while you code into the wee hours of the morning, and there’s a debate going on as to what kind of paper stock you should use to print out your legal docs on. Nice work if you can get it.

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Aswath Damodaran on the Difference Between Pricing a Company and Valuing One, and More

The Motley Fool

A company is a legal entity. Market mistakes become bigger than active investors come in again. You don't need very many active investors to keep markets on their toes so much as that argument has merit, I think that the truth is that David Einhorn, the Bill Ackman's, the Carl Icahn's have a place in this process.

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Ingredients for a Happy Retirement

The Motley Fool

I think you have a great, great thread or post on X about index investing and essentially the returns and costs associated with index investing versus the famous active investors including Kathy Wood and Bill Ackman. I will plug that. I'll put a link in the show notes. Jim Gillies: Sure. It is making headlines. Makes a lot of sense.

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Baxter signs definitive agreement to divest its BioPharma Solutions business to Advent International and Warburg Pincus for $4.25 billion

Advent International

Perella Weinberg Partners is serving as financial advisor and Sullivan & Cromwell is serving as legal advisor to Baxter. Moelis & Company LLC and Truist Securities are serving as financial advisors and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Ropes & Gray are serving as legal advisors to Advent and Warburg Pincus.

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Earth Capital's Richard Burrett on How Asset Managers Can Influence the Future of the Corporation

Pension Pulse

Legal experts conversely argue that the global companies that form alliances to help them tackle climate change need clear "safe harbour" guidelines from governments to allay fears they could be tripped up by antitrust rules.(4) Critics of climate action in the U.S. are now arguing that industry climate alliances violate U.S.

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Transcript: Charlie Ellis

The Big Picture

And they were because of the SEC and the whole concept of regulation of mutual fund industry, representatives of the investors in the mutual funds. And so, legally, the directors were responsible for figuring out what to do about investing, then the directors were responsible for figuring out what to do about sales. RITHOLTZ: Okay.