The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the petitions for panel rehearing by the SEC and Amnesty International on the conflict minerals case, and have ordered the parties to file su...
Directors can provide more insight on how they govern their companies, and investors can give more information on how they cast their votes, so that there is less mystery from both sides,...
The final day for companies to verify the data that will form the basis of their ISS QuickScore 3.0 is tomorrow, November 14. The program closes after that time until the launch of QuickS...
A new form of shareholder proposal focused on environmental and social issues does not ask the company to, for example, report on reducing emissions. Instead, the proposal is focused on h...
In preparation for the 2015 proxy season, companies should be aware of the updates to the policies that govern how the two influential proxy advisory firms, ISS and Glass Lewis, will be a...
In preparation for the 2015 proxy season, companies should be aware of the updates to the policies that govern how the two influential proxy advisory firms, ISS and Glass Lewis, will be a...
In what is being called the “Boardroom Accountability Project,” the New York City Comptroller, on behalf of the New York City Pension Funds, issued a press release yesterday announcin...
Both ISS and Glass Lewis have released their policy updates for the 2015 proxy season, with new guidelines for board adoption of bylaws, IPO companies, independent chair shareholder propo...
A study by the CFA Institute has been quoted in shareholder proposals seeking proxy access for a particularly notable statement: that proxy access has the potential to raise U.S. market c...
A database of compliance policies for Fortune 500 companies, launched by the University of Houston Law Center, should help companies that want to benchmark their protocols.
The free datab...
