A recent press release from the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), issued jointly with the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, indicates that they have been working...
The new SEC rules regarding compensation committee independence and compensation advisers’ relationships require disclosure of whether the work of certain compensation consultants have ...
A year after opening its new whistleblower office, the SEC announced today that it had paid out $50,000 to an unidentified whistleblower, the first such award under Dodd-Frank. In its pre...
Amidst concerns that the SEC whistleblower rules will encourage employees to bypass internal protocols and take allegations of misconduct directly to the Commission, a survey by the nonpr...
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...
