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Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein spoke at a breakfast briefing this morning about Japan, the Fed, too big to fail, and potential successor Gary Cohn.
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Federal Reserve's 19 policy makers when they meet in Washington this week. Now, though, consensus is building among policy makers that the time is nearing to adjust their $85 billion- a-month asset purchase program, dubbed quantitative easing, but divisions remain over just when to start reducing the dosage.
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SALT LAKE City, May 23- After dozens of meetings with executives and regulators, 100,000 hours of employee training and an immeasurable amount of public grief, Goldman Sachs Group Inc CEO Lloyd Blankfein claimed success in putting his bank and his legacy back on track.
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SALT LAKE City, May 23- After dozens of meetings with executives and regulators, 100,000 hours of employee training and an immeasurable amount of public grief, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein is claiming a victory in getting his bank, and his legacy, back on track.
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NEW YORK, May 13- Goldman Sachs Group Inc shareholders should vote against the Wall Street bank's executive compensation proposal because the board has "failed to link pay with performance," proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis said in a report on Monday.
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April 26- Videogame publisher Activision Blizzard Inc's Chief Executive Robert Kotick received a total compensation of $64.9 million last year, making him one of the top paid CEOs in the United States.
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*Profit $2.19 bln vs $2.07 bln a year earlier. *Per-share profit $4.29 vs Street view $3.88. April 16- Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported higher quarterly earnings on Tuesday but said revenue from client trading fell 10 percent, raising questions about the health of its biggest money maker.
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*Per share profit $4.29 vs Street view $3.88. April 16- Goldman Sachs Group Inc reported a stronger-than-expected 5.5 percent rise in quarterly profit as it earned more from underwriting fees and its own investments.
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NEW YORK, April 12- Goldman Sachs Group Inc's board awarded Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein a 75 percent increase in compensation, to $21 million, for 2012- including pay, bonus and restricted stock award. His pay was unchanged at $2 million, but both his cash bonus and stock award almost doubled to $5.7 million and $13.3 million, respectively.
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The White House had set the agenda for the meeting, a source familiar with the situation said, and the ongoing reform of Wall Street- a hot issue for bank lobbyists- did not appear prominently on the list of topics.
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April 10- For the second year in a row, Goldman Sachs Group fended off a shareholder proposal that would have stripped Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein of his chairman title. CtW Investment Group, which advises union pension funds, said it agreed to withdraw a proxy resolution that would have required a split between the chairman and CEO roles.
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April 10- For the second year in a row, Goldman Sachs Group fended off a shareholder proposal that would have stripped Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein of his chairman's title. Change to Win Investment Group, which advises union pension funds, said it agreed to withdraw a proxy resolution that would have required a split between the chairman and CEO roles.
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NEW YORK, April 4- Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Thursday that Stephen Friedman, who once headed the bank when it was a private partnership, will retire from its board of directors because he has reached the company's age limit.
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March 26- Warren Buffett has given up his chance to become Goldman Sachs Group Inc's largest shareholder no additional cost to his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Buffett received the warrants as part of a 2008 deal during the depths of the financial crisis, when his investment in Goldman was seen as a vote of confidence in the firm.
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March 26- Warren Buffett will become one of Goldman Sachs' ten largest shareholders essentially for free, after he and the bank amended a 2008 deal to exchange his potential profit on Goldman warrants for stock. Under a 2008 deal, Buffett had held the right to acquire about 43.5 million shares of stock at an exercise price of $115.
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*Pay for Brady Dougan up one third to 7.77 mln Sfr. *Robert Shafir is top earner with 10.59 mln Sfr vs 8.5 mln. ZURICH, March 22- Credit Suisse upped the remuneration of Chief Executive Brady Dougan by one third in 2012, likely adding to public and political dismay over the scale of banker pay in a year when the Swiss bank's stock stalled.
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*Nonetheless lets JPMorgan, Goldman proceed with plans. *Shares of JPMorgan, Goldman and BB&T fall after hours. March 14- In a blow to two major Wall Street banks, the Federal Reserve told Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase that they must fix flaws in how they determine capital payouts to shareholders, but still approved their plans for share buybacks and dividends.
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March 14- The Federal Reserve told Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase that they must fix flaws in how they determine capital payouts to shareholders, but still approved their plans for share buybacks and dividends. The Fed vetoed submissions by BB&T Corp and Ally Financial.
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Goldman Sachs lost its battle to ignore an investor proposal to strip Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein of his chairman role, according to SEC's website.
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NEW YORK, March 8- Goldman Sachs Group Inc lost its battle to ignore an investor proposal to strip Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein of his chairman role, according to correspondence posted on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's website on Friday.
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NEW YORK, March 4- Goldman Sachs Group Inc is trying to find ways to keep investing in the profitable, albeit risky, business of buying and selling companies without crossing a rule that will restrict private equity investing, three sources familiar with the new business said over the past week.
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