Craig McGuire
Knowing the deadline for filing your shareholder proposal will better enable you to map out a timeline for success. DID YOUR COMPANY HOLD AN ANNUAL MEETING THE PREVIOUS YEAR? If you plan on submitting your proposal for the annual meeting …
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Are you concerned with the long-term viability of a publicly traded company in which you hold shares? Is management missing an important opportunity? Do you have a great idea that will add shareholder value? If so, don’t just dispute, contribute. …
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A “Shareholder Proposal” is an essential component in the tool kit of any investor activist or corporate gadfly. Basically, a shareholder proposal is a document recommendation that a shareholder formally submits to a publicly traded company advocating the company take …
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Shareholder advocacy is a participatory sport. One of the essential tools in the toolkit of any corporate gadfly is the shareholder proposal, also known as the shareholder resolution. This is a formal proposal submitted by a shareholder or a group …
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Shareholder proposals that focused on affecting procedures and by-laws have been far more likely to be adopted by US publicly traded companies than other types of investor submissions. That is according to “Proxy Monitor 2011-A Report on Corporate Governance and …
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When is a corporation not a corporation? When it is a person. Huh? Fairness is relative to the interpretation of the laws governing publicly traded companies. From the outside looking in, this prism may seem a bit peculiar at times, …
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Not everyone can be a Carl Icahn or T. Boone Pickens — the famed activist shareholders notable for acquiring equity stakes in publicly owned companies to force action to improve value of the company or buy back their shares at …
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A shareholder activist is not an island—at least if he wants to affect change. Heavyweight shareholder activists, or cabals of corporate raiders, can exert brute force to bend the board of a publicly traded company to their will. However, the …
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The revolution is finally being televised. As the little protest that could chugs along in Lower Manhattan, “Occupy Wall Street” is gaining national and even international media attention—after being barricaded from the front pages early on. Despite what critics want …
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