Shareholder Policies & Investor Regulations
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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In law, there is a principle known as “Ignorantia juris non excusat,” or “ignorance of the law does not excuse.” It holds that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law. Without …
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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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Western Union Co. (WU) unveiled a proposal to declassify its board structure and said it won’t submit a management proposal for proxy access at its 2012 annual meeting, according to a Dow Jones report. (Western Union Plans To Declassify Board, Drops …
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