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      SEC litigation and share price

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      SEC lawsuits have a negative impact on the share price. But are some violations worse than others? Is there a difference between litigation being settled with fines and without? What happens if it's just left pending? A study answers these questions.

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      Restatement signals

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      What impact do restatements have on the share price? Do investors pick up signals before the company decides to come clean? And how do companies that overstate their earnings perform before they actually come out with the truth? A study sheds light.

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    • Private lives, public accountability

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      Studies show that the private lives of CEOs have a huge impact on shareholders. Following the death of a child, profitability was roughly 21 per cent lower in the two years after the tragedy. But the share price goes up when the mother-in-law dies.

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    • Campaign contributions and share price

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      Shares of companies that make political contributions do much better than those of other companies. A study has found that the bigger the spread of candidates, the better the returns, perhaps by up to 6 per cent!. According to the study, defence, tobacco, aircraft, automobile and oil industries tend to hold the largest portfolios of supported candidates.

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    SoxFirst

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    Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.

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