large shareholder

collocation in English

meaningsoflargeandshareholder

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large
adjective
uk
/lɑːdʒ/
us
/lɑːrdʒ/
big in size ...
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shareholder
noun[C]
uk
/ˈʃeəˌhəʊl.dər/
us
/ˈʃerˌhoʊl.dɚ/
a person who owns shares in a company and therefore gets part of the company's profits and the right to vote on how the company ...
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(Definition oflargeandshareholderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Black (1998) surveys the literature onlargeshareholderand pension fund activism and concludes that pension fund interventions are generally ineffective.
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Thelargeshareholderstatus of pension funds provides them with the incentives to monitor insiders and seek the improvement of shareholders' legal protections, thus improving corporate governance.
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It very nearly went under and it would have done so had it not had alargeshareholder.
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Inevitably, owing to the taxation system sometimes the interests of alargeshareholderare very different from those of a small shareholder.
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He carries out monitoring because he is alargeshareholder.
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There may be cases where shareholders are dissatisfied with the management and wish to dispose of their shares, and the management will be against having anotherlargeshareholder.
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He was also alargeshareholderin several railway companies.
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Internal monitoring can be done, for example, by one (or a few)largeshareholder(s) in the case of privately held companies or a firm belonging to a business group.
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We know that pension funds are not yet large shareholders of publicly traded firms in developing countries.
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Sinclair helped orchestrate the deal and was alargeshareholder.
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The conventional wisdom holds that pension funds, as they accumulate domestic shares, become large shareholders of publicly traded firms, especially in developing countries where stock markets are thin.
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I assume that the question refers to the influence which large shareholders can have over company management.
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We talk about large shareholders and institutional shareholders, but behind those shareholders stand the ordinary people who are so concerned about what is going on.
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He had enterprises with which he has been associated are still shown as large shareholders in it.
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We also know that the large shareholders (those holding over one million shares) rose in that same period 13 times.
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If it is desirable that directors should relinquish their directorships, is it not equally desirable that large shareholders should give up their share holdings?
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There are also one-to-one presentations to large shareholders.
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Large shareholders such as institutional investors and investment managers would probably have to disclose all their holdings.
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It does not in the least mean that large shareholders in some enterprise which employs plant and machinery are not going to bear the full rate of tax.
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Other occasions are when it helps one or other of two large shareholders to buy out the other and so brings to an end what might be called internecine mismanagement.
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