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25 Feb 2011, 12:00 pm
The Council of Institutional Investors, the Consumer Federation of America, and ShareOwners.org, which represents retail investors, are urging lawmakers to spare the U.S. [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 8:55 am
Corporate advocates are asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to hold off on barring "broker votes" from director elections until the agency can conduct a comprehensive review of the proxy voting system. [read post]
31 Jul 2009, 6:05 am
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on legislation that would require U.S. companies to hold annual advisory votes on executive compensation. [read post]
10 May 2010, 4:14 am
On Friday, Occidental Petroleum became the second U.S. company to fail to win majority support during a non-binding vote on its pay practices. [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 10:42 am
The issue of succession planning is getting more attention again after last week’s sudden ouster of Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd, and activist investors plan to file more shareholder proposals on this topic in 2011.HP announced Friday that Hurd resigned and was replaced by Catherine A. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 10:44 am
The Council of Institutional Investors (CII), which represents public, labor, and corporate funds, has urged two prominent lawyers’ groups to support majority voting as the default legal standard for uncontested board elections. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 7:48 am
As you prepare for the 2012 proxy season, please join ISS for two informative webinars on Tuesday and Wednesday on the updates to ISS' benchmark proxy voting policies for Europe and the United States. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 4:21 pm
Some legal experts expect the new Congress--with expanded Democratic majorities in both chambers and a new Democratic president--will take legislative action in 2009 to reverse U.S. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 6:51 am
Hewlett-Packard, which has experienced continued CEO turnover and failed to get majority support for its pay practices at its last shareholder meeting, now faces a proxy access proposal filed by the Amalgamated Bank, a labor-affiliated investor.In addition, shareholder activist Jim McRitchie said he has submitted a low-threshold access proposal at Goldman Sachs. [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 7:34 am
Earlier today, ISS announced that it has established a new Feedback Review Board, setting a new high water mark for transparency, openness, and responsiveness.The new Feedback Review Board (FRB) is designed to serve as a conduit for investors, issuers, and various market constituents to communicate with ISS. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 2:01 pm
A fifth U.S. company, FirstMerit Corp., has failed to win majority approval from shareholders for its executive pay practices this year. [read post]
14 Dec 2009, 2:54 pm
In a move that surprised some observers, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Dec. 14 that it would reopen the comment period on its controversial proxy access rule. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 10:24 am
The battle between some issuers and shareholder activist John Chevedden rose to a new level recently when Apache Corp. filed suit against Chevedden in order to exclude his proposal asking the company to drop its supermajority voting hurdles in favor of a majority-of-votes cast standard. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 10:41 am
The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission is allowing companies to omit a new AFL-CIO proposal that seeks to bar current or former CEOs from serving on the compensation committee. [read post]
30 Mar 2009, 6:51 am
While U.S. companies challenged more governance proposals this season at the Securities and Exchange Commission, investors so far have fared better than in 2008, according to a RiskMetrics Group analysis. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 7:15 am
The Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected Consol Energy's request to omit a novel proposal that seeks prompt disclosure of the vote results on shareholder proposals. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 7:42 am
In response to shareholder proposals, Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to hold a "say on pay" advisory vote on executive compensation in 2011, while Windstream plans to hold an advisory vote in May. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 10:14 am
After complaints from investors, Devon Energy has dropped its procedural objections to a shareholder proposal that seeks to repeal the company’s supermajority rules in favor a simple majority standard. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 10:22 am
On April 5, Ameron International disclosed that a majority of investors voted against its pay practices. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 2:08 pm
During shareholder meetings this week, investors rejected the executive compensation practices at Nabors Industries and lodged a significant protest vote at Chesapeake Energy. [read post]
