Broadridge recently presented statistics from the 2012 proxy season, covering meetings from March 1st to June 1st. In this period of only 93 days, a staggering volume of shares, nearly 34...
In response to concerns that audit firms were either declining to provide important information or downplaying the results of PCAOB inspections, the PCAOB recently issued a report about h...
ISS has issued its policy survey for 2013. The survey seeks input from institutional investors, issuers and other corporate governance participants, with 31 questions of relevance to the...
The quieter summer months muted what may turn out to be an important turning point in the proxy access landscape: the SEC staff denial of no-action requests for proxy access proposals sub...
Cognitive bias leads to faulty decisionmaking, warned Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster at the National Conference of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals. In ...
For the past two proxy seasons, companies have criticized how proxy advisory services have selected company peer groups in order to evaluate pay for performance for purposes of making...
The importance of shareholder engagement is increasingly clear, as annual meetings become more than simply routine events. For a discussion on how to execute that mandate, and do it well...
Although proxy season has largely ended for most companies, the debate over the influence of proxy advisory firms, and whether containment is needed, continues. A recent study by Tapestr...
The SEC announced today that it will hold an open meeting on Wednesday, August 22nd at 10:00am to discuss whether to:
adopt rules regarding disclosure and reporting obligations with resp...
While proxy season has ended for most companies, there are a number of governance matters worth keeping an eye on during the summer months:
SEC Rulemaking. The SEC website noting upcomin...
