On December 20th, ISS issued two extensive FAQs on their voting policies. A separate blog will cover the compensation items.
The non-compensation FAQs cover old ground in many respects, i...
Nasdaq has filed an amendment to its proposed listing standards with respect to compensation committees, as referred to in our recent post. The key provisions include:
Effective Dates. ...
Most of the 15 comment letters on the proposed listing standards for compensation committees by the NYSE and Nasdaq focused on committee member independence. Some commentators, including ...
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters has sent a number of companies shareholder proposals seeking (a) triennial say-on-pay votes and (b) a vote not only on the overall executive compensat...
Political contributions shareholder proposals continue to be a perennial favorite among activists even post-election, as we are seeing a proliferation of those proposals already. There ap...
We previously reported on an interesting action by National Fuel Gas Company (NYSE:NFG) regarding a shareholder proposal submitted by the Harvard Shareholder Rights Project, on behalf of ...
Last week I participated in an NYSE-sponsored webcast hosted by Judy McLevey at the NYSE. Our panel discussed the issues that may affect the upcoming proxy season. The other panelists con...
ISS has released a detailed set of FAQs on how it will select a company’s peer group for purposes of conducting its pay-for-performance analysis. ISS uses this peer group to measure a ...
More than 18 months ago, we alerted readers about a request for information by the Department of Labor (DOL) seeking suggestions from interested parties on the possibility of using electr...
At its upcoming webinar, ISS will likely discuss a new process for companies that are changing their own peer group selections from 2012 to 2013 to inform ISS of those changes prior to is...
