Today, February 20, ISS has posted a preview of its updated GRId 2.0 data profiles for U.S. companies. Company representatives can access the GRId profile (for free) through the ISS data...
Just in time before most proxy statements are issued, the SEC staff has issued a CDI on how say-on-pay resolutions should be described on proxy cards and voting instruction forms, with sp...
Instead of being the first company with a proxy access shareholder proposal voted on at its meeting, Hewlett-Packard recently became the third company to agree to implement proxy access. ...
As companies are in the midst of preparing their proxy statements, some may have forgotten an interpretation that the SEC Staff issued last summer regarding the use of non-GAAP financial ...
ISS issued several helpful FAQs to further explain how it will evaluate pay-for-performance, management responses to prior say-on-pay votes and equity compensation plans. A particularly ...
Western Union recently submitted a no-action letter to the SEC Staff seeking to exclude a binding proxy access shareholder proposal from Norges Bank, arguing under Rule 14a-8(i)(9) that t...
The Shareholder Communications Coalition, a group that includes the Business Roundtable, the National Investors Relations Institute and the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance...
As 2011 neared a close, ISS announced that it will update its Governance Risk Indicators (called GRId 2.0) on February 24, 2012 to score all Russell 3000 companies. For the first time, a...
As we remarked back in August 2011, the SEC website with its rulemaking schedule on Dodd-Frank initiatives is changed with little notice, as it has been again. Back in August 2011 we eve...
After receiving comments and hosting a roundtable, the PCAOB has reproposed for comment an auditing standard on Communications with Audit Committees by making modifications to its origina...