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3 May 2011, 5:46 am
The number of failed U.S. advisory votes this year has reached a dozen after two Denver-based firms, Janus Capital Group and M.D.C. [read post]
3 May 2011, 5:46 am
The number of failed U.S. advisory votes this year has reached a dozen after two Denver-based firms, Janus Capital Group and M.D.C. [read post]
2 May 2011, 4:25 am
Ted Allen's blog provides some analysis, including noting significant levels of "no" votes at Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson (both of whom are S&P 500 companies). [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 4:41 am
This week, Cogent Communications Group failed to get majority support from investors on its executive compensation, bringing to 10 the number of U.S. companies where shareholders have made such protests this year. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 4:16 am
Ted Allen's blog provides some analysis. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 1:09 am
As Ted Allen noted on the Risk Metrics Group Insights blog (here), at the company’s February 2, 2011 annual meeting, over 53% of its shareholders voted against the company’s say-on-pay resolution. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 6:39 pm
On Tuesday, Navigant Consulting reported that it received just 44.8 percent support during its advisory vote on compensation. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 4:02 am
AFL-CIO Launches 2011 "Executive PayWatch" Last week, as ISS's Ted Allen notes in this blog, the AFL-CIO began a campaign to urge shareholders to vote on say-on-pay. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 10:51 am
Last week, two more U.S. companies, Stanley Black & Decker and Umpqua Holdings Corp. failed to get majority support for their pay practices. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 2:22 pm
So far, investors have been overwhelmingly receptive to management recommendations for annual “say on pay” votes. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 7:41 pm
The AFL-CIO has launched the 2011 version of its Executive PayWatch Web site and is urging investors to help rein in CEO pay by participating in the advisory votes on compensation that all large and mid-cap companies will hold this year. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 11:25 am
So far this U.S. proxy season, investors and companies have focused on the advisory votes on compensation and pay vote frequency that all large and mid-cap firms are required to hold this year by the Dodd-Frank Act. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 3:16 pm
Kinetic Concepts, a Texas-based medical technology company, plans to omit a shareholder proposal on eligibility grounds even though the SEC turned down its no-action request.In January, Kinetic Concepts asked the SEC's Corporation Finance Division staff for permission to omit a declassification proposal filed by California shareholder activist John Chevedden, who is part of a retail investor network that files more than 100 resolutions each year. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 4:37 am
And ISS's Ted Allen blogged about how AFSCME has launched the first public "just vote no" campaign this proxy season against two companies over their pay practices. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 7:11 am
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) announced Monday that the union pension fund will urge other investors to vote against the executive compensation practices at Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer. [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]
8 Apr 2011, 2:15 pm
Now that Democratic and Republican lawmakers have tentatively agreed to continue funding the U.S. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 8:29 am
In this post, Ted Allen discusses the highlights from the hearing which featured a tough grilling of SEC lawyer Randall Quinn on the costs and benefits of Rule 14a-11. 3) California Corporate & Securities Law: Diverse Director “Data Source” Announced, Dogged by Questions - In this post, Keith Paul Bishop discusses CalPERS and CalSTRS recent announcement that they have commissioned The Corporate Library to develop the Diverse Director… [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 4:24 am
As Ted Allen noted in ISS's Blog: "While it can be difficult to predict the outcome of a case based on oral arguments, the judges appeared receptive to the arguments by Eugene Scalia, the lawyer for the business groups, that the SEC inconsistently judged how frequently the rule would be used and how much it might cost. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 2:49 pm
During oral arguments today, three U.S. appeals court judges questioned the SEC’s assessment of the costs and benefits of its proxy access rule, and asked whether the rule would empower labor and public pension funds at the expense of other investors. [read post]
