Shareholder Policies & Investor Regulations
Voting Decisions at US Mutual Funds: How Investors Really Use Proxy Advisers The Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute and Tapestry Networks (Tapestry) hosted a webinar on Monday, June 4, 2012, to review the findings of a new report, “Voting …
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Just as corporations are facing demands for increased democracy through proxy access proposals and vague protests from Occupy Wall Street, some cooperatives, with long-held democratic values are in danger of shifting in the opposite direction through internal takeovers or dismantlement. …
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On May 8, 2012, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP’s Silicon Valley office hosted a one day symposium on Weathering a Crisis for corporate leaders and general counsel. Panel discussions focused on how to effectively handle a crisis before it becomes public; how …
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Loren Steffy, of the Houston Chronicle, and Sean Quinn, of the ISS Governance Institute, posted about proxy access and upcoming votes. At Hewlett Packard a shareholder access proposal was withdrawn after the company agreed to sponsor a proposal in 2013 …
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According to GMI, rising share prices helped drive a 15% pay hike for CEOs in 2011, with the average compensation package hitting $5.8M. That’s on top of a 28% pay rise in 2010. Inflation was about 2.7% in 2011. The census bureau …
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This was the last of a three part overview of shareholder activism, beginning with the history and an overview of the key players in the space; continuing with a behind-the-scenes look at non-contentious shareholder engagement and how its impacting companies and …
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This was the second in a three part overview of shareholder activism, beginning with the history and an overview of the key players in the space; continuing with a behind-the-scenes look at non-contentious shareholder engagement and how its impacting companies …
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General Electric’s (GE) annual shareowner meeting was held in Detroit last April. Steven Towns prepared two write-ups surrounding GE’s annual meeting: a review of each item for vote on its proxy, and a look at why GE is undervalued. Great to see another …
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Shareholder Democracies?: Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850 addresses a central issue. Current governance structures often allow managers to pursue their own interests. According to some, a dissemblance of democracy has led to “elitism and self-interest in the …
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Bank of America executives, investors, and opponents alike reacted with surprise to news—posted for two hours on Dow Jones Newswire and elsewhere—that the mammoth financial institution, realizing it was heading for a taxpayer bailout, was asking Americans to start thinking about …
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