Chair White covered a wide array of topics recently at a securities regulation conference, though the press immediately focused on her comments about the possibility of new rules for disc...
When companies engage with BlackRock’s corporate governance team, they may be asked about the company’s “strategic framework for long-term value creation,” according to the letter...
Shareholders at several companies will vote on proposals asking boards to adopt a payout policy that gives preference to share repurchases instead of cash dividends. The proponents’ sup...
The WJS’s interactive graph on the 4,500 directors in the S&P 500 provides an interesting compilation of the hot topics of the day, including the number of women on boards, director ind...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated in a recent report that even if equal proportions of women and men joined boards each year beginning in 2015, it could take more ...
In charging senior leaders of a failed bank with fraud, the SEC also held two outside directors responsible.
Eleven executives and board members of the bank were charged by the SEC, which...
The New York City Comptroller issued a press release today announcing that the New York City pension funds (the Funds) have filed 72 new proxy access shareholder proposals, though many we...
A complaint to force the SEC to adopt rules requiring public companies to disclose the use of corporate funds for political activities was dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the Dis...
Until January 31 or whenever a specified limit is reached, NYSE and Nasdaq listed issuers can sign up for Glass Lewis’ data verification program, known as the Issuer Data Report (IDR) s...
A number of companies have submitted no-action letters to the SEC arguing that they have already substantially implemented the proxy access shareholder proposals that they received for th...
