The Chief Investment Officer of State Street Global Advisor (SSGA) has sent letters to board chairs and lead directors at S&P 500 companies requesting that they report on their compliance...
U.S. public companies recently began disclosing their CEO-to-median employee pay ratios, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act and Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K. It is still too early to dra...
NYSE-listed companies that file proxy materials under Schedule 14A so that the materials are available on Edgar will no longer have to send hard copies to the NYSE.
The NYSE had proposed ...
A company will be permitted to exclude a shareholder proposal seeking a report assessing the environmental impacts of continuing to use “K-Cup Pods brand packaging.” The company argu...
The SEC staff recently denied no-action relief to two Nasdaq-listed companies that sought to exclude proposals asking for independent chairmen where the resolutions referred to NYSE indep...
The SEC has announced an open meeting this Wednesday at 10:00 EST with the first agenda item listed as whether to approve the issuance of an interpretive release to provide guidance to as...
Along with its four pillars for governance which score companies on a one to ten scale, ISS has launched Environmental & Social (E&S) QualityScore to measure corporate disclosure on envir...
BlackRock updated its proxy voting guidelines, and some of the key highlights since its last update include:
Two women on boards. In its discussion of the importance of boards comprising...
The topic of corporate ESG disclosure is among the ESG trends to watch in 2018, according to a recent report from MSCI.
Companies are increasingly providing voluntary information about th...
In a recent speech, Chairman Clayton discussed completing the rulemaking mandates under Dodd-Frank, in light of his mission to allocate the SEC’s resources to both fulfilling statutory ...
