Yesterday ISS released its policy survey addressing matters that may cause the proxy advisory firm to change how it makes voting recommendations for the upcoming proxy season. The survey ...
SEC Chair White testified yesterday before the Senate Banking Committee in a hearing that C-Span dubbed “Financial Market Collapse Prevention, Part 1.” Her written testimony lacks t...
The Council of Institutional Investors in June petitioned the NYSE and Nasdaq to require majority voting for the election of directors in uncontested elections. CII also wants the exchang...
With the recent court decision upholding the SEC conflict minerals rule, a recent survey PwC published summarizing responses from more than 900 individuals this past spring becomes more r...
We alerted companies to the fact that yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected a suit to invalidate the SEC’s conflict mineral rule. The 63-page opinion ...
Amalgamated Bank’s LongView LargeCap 500 Index Fund and UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust have filed a novel clawback shareholder proposal at McKesson. The proposal asks that the compa...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released three studies on the SEC and its initiatives, pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act. The GAO examined the criteria for qualifying as an ind...
The SEC has approved, upon filing of the rule proposal last week, a NYSE proposal to eliminate its separate voting standards anytime shareholder approval is a prerequisite to the listing ...
Perhaps the House legislation, “The Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act,” has inspired the sudden press interest in the Dodd-Frank pay disparity rule requiring public companies to d...
Hearing from Chief Justice Myron Steele of the Delaware Supreme Court was another highlight of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals’ National Conference. Ju...
