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There were three new or continuing developments this year, according to the SEC: Shareholder Proposals on Proxy Access. Shareholders were asked to vote on shareholder proposals to establish procedures to include shareholder director nominations in company proxy materials. Uninstructed Broker …
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The movement has lost steam, and faded. It’s important to figure out why. Post-hoc psychological analytics have a place in our culture, and certainly on the Street. What went wrong? Why didn’t the momentum produce more tangible results? Assembly and …
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I posted a note about Anne Simpson going onto the board of the Council of Institutional Investors (CII). Now I see that Anne Sheehan, director of corporate governance at CalSTRS, was elected chairwoman of CII and Michael McCauley, senior officer of investment …
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Shareholders, investors, board members, and managers need to be aware of the right, and of the need to protest. Expressing concerns, making analytic observations, and working toward solutions are all critically important for the sustainability of the companies we co-own. …
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CalPERS announced in April that Anne Simpson, who heads their corporate governance efforts, has been elected to the Board of the Council of Institutional Investors (CII). CII is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association of pension funds and other employee benefit funds, …
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Emotionally, OWS participants have real life needs for fairness, consideration, communication, and understanding as do we all do. The movement has accelerated, and stopped and started. Its path has been uneven and unclear. OCW is indeed a “work in progress.” …
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Fredrick D. Lipman provides several insights to Conference Board readers drawn from his recent book Whistleblowers: Incentives, Disincentives, and Protection Strategies (Wiley Corporate F&A). Lippman finds seven major problems with most current whistleblowers systems: The tone at the top …
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In order to be effective, a movement must have a political base, and ultimately a financial base. Politics are related to the group’s ideas and strategies which promote their belief and value systems. Successful groups have well defined platforms and …
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The Wall Street Journal printed an article describing how CEOs around the world spend their time. The article drew on data from a larger study, the Executive Time Use Project, and relied on reports of time use by CEO’s personal assistants. The article indicates that …
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The protests were initiated by a Canadian group known as Adbusters. Their philosophy is anti-consumerist. They most certainly would not have been fans of Edward Bernays, who wrote Propaganda in 1948. He is known as “the father of public relations.” …
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About Christopher Bayer, Ph.D.
Co-founder of TheShareholderActivist.comTM, Christopher Bayer, Ph.D., is "The Wall Street Psychologist." With his weekly blogs, research and special features, Dr. Bayer brings you inside the minds of The Street as few can.
Since the early 1980's, Dr. Bayer has practiced as a licensed New York psychologist and psychoanalyst, specializing in the treatment of financial services executives in the securities and banking industries. He has a long standing interest in shareholder education and shareholder activism.
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The Shareholder Activist is a network that empowers investors to exercise their rights as equity stakeholders. Our goal is to create a platform for responsible shareholder activism ensuring the viability and sustainability of companies we co-own. As an online community we provide tools, tactics, and techniques to hold companies to their stated mission. We advocate for shareholder and investor education.