The SEC today announced that its staff will host a public roundtable on December 5 to discuss the use of proxy advisory firm services by institutional investors and investment advisers. T...
The PCAOB wants audit committees to take note of a recent audit practice alert that it issued in light of a significant number of audit deficiencies observed in the past three years relat...
The SEC director of the Division of Corporation Finance, Keith Higgins, testified before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday at a hearing titled “The JOBS Act at a Year and a Half...
“For board members, 2013 was a tale of two proxy seasons,” declares the ISS 2013 Proxy Season Review, taking a page out of the NYC mayoral race playbook.
The report (free registration...
Calling him an “economy-class activist,” a Reuters article unveils some of the mystery surrounding retail activist John Chevedden, well known to many as the most prolific sponsor of s...
Disclosure of realizable pay and realized pay may be all the rage, but the fact that a wide range of different practices exists led the Conference Board Working Group on Supplemental Pay ...
Unlike prior years, ISS has released only two U.S.-based draft policy changes for comment, due by November 4, 2013. Both clarify existing policies at the margins rather than suggest any s...
On October 15, plaintiffs Boilermakers Local 154 Retirement Fund and Key West Police & Fire Pension Fund filed a notice of voluntary dismissal to drop their appeal to the Delaware Supreme...
It is well known that Chair White and her staff have stressed that their immediate focus is on completing the mandatory rulemaking under the Dodd-Frank and JOBS Acts, but in a sign of pos...
Comment letters continue to flow in, almost overwhelmingly supportive so far, on the SEC proposed rule for pay ratio disclosure. More than 19,000 form letters and over 150 specific letter...
