A controversy over disclosure of commission rates in listing contracts erupted in Denver last month, shedding fresh light on what can be a contentious subject, shrouded from public view.
Full disclosure: I commissioned the book as long ago as 1985.
Full disclosure: I commissioned this particular series and edited it for several months.
Any course of action — disclosure or silence, commission or omission — carried unavoidable electoral consequences.
There may well have been technical breaches of rules on disclosure or limiting commission size; and some agreed buying by clients after an IPO may even have amounted to market manipulation.
In wording that suggests that new witnesses may have come forward, the statement says the investigation will look at the frankness of the charity's disclosure to the commission of "serious incidents relating to staffing matters".
The SEC has been "studying" how to improve fee and commission disclosure for at least three years, says Mercer Bullard, a former SEC fund regulator who now runs Fund Democracy, a nonprofit group.
As the declarations of the IRS and three of the four task order awardees ConServe, CBE Group, Inc., and Performant Recover Inc.—make clear, disclosure of the commission percentages would enable competitors to (1) gain insight into the awardees' pricing strategy and (2) underbid the awardees in future competitive bidding processes for IRS debt collection or other similar contracts.
In Denver, as in many other areas, MLS rules prohibit disclosure of the commission rates offered to agents working on behalf of buyers.
Pohl's orders represent a watershed in disclosure for the commissions.
With the disclosure that journalists commissioned private investigators to hack into private voice mail messages, reporters and editors crossed a line from moral ambiguity into criminality.
