James McRitchie
Key highlights of the 2011 Enforcement Report: 66 of the concluded cases involved illegal distributions, which represented the largest category of concluded cases. 124 concluded cases involved a total of 237 individual and 128 companies that resulted in: -Fines and …
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Following another year of record-breaking shareowner votes on social and environmental issues – including five majority votes – socially responsible investors are gearing up to have even greater impact in 2012. This year’s edition of Proxy Preview provides a comprehensive …
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The preliminary vote gave my “say on directors pay” less than 4%, so I guess putting that proposal up at the world’s largest most profitable company with so many happy shareowners may have been a mistake. However, I note that …
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The Conference Board and FactSet Research Systems announced a joint initiative to analyze and disseminate aggregate data from the annual general meetings (AGMs) of U.S. public companies. The Conference Board, in collaboration with FactSet, will produce The Proxy Voting Report …
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On October 9, 2011, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law bills that create two new corporate forms in California: Flexible purpose corporations, created by California Senate Bill 201 (SB 201) and Benefit corporations, created by California Assembly Bill 361 (AB …
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Apple (AAPL) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting was held on February 23, 2012 . This was one meeting I attended in person, both to vote and to move my motion to provide shareowners with a …
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“Corporations determine far more than any other institution the air we breathe, the quality of the water we drink, even where we live. Yet they are not accountable to anyone.” Those words were on the 1991 cover of Power and …
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“Corporations determine far more than any other institution the air we breathe, the quality of the water we drink, even where we live. Yet they are not accountable to anyone.” Those words were on the 1991 cover of Power and …
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“Corporations determine far more than any other institution the air we breathe, the quality of the water we drink, even where we live. Yet they are not accountable to anyone.” Those words were on the 1991 cover of Power and …
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