Posted by Seth Duppstadt, Proxy Insight, on Thursday, February 2, 2017 Tags: Boards of Directors, Executive Compensation, Glass Lewis, Institutional Investors, ISS, Management, Proxy advisors, Proxy voting, Say on pay, Shareholder voting Corporate Power is Corporate Purpose I: Evidence from My Hometown Posted by Kobi Kastiel, Co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Thursday, February 2, 2017 Tags: Boards of Directors, Corporate culture, Corporate… [read post]

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Reportedly to IPO with Unprecedented Non-Voting Shares for Public Posted by Rob Kalb and Rob Yates, Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc., on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 Tags: Accountability, Controlling shareholders, Corporate culture, Dual-class stock, Executive Compensation, Institutional Investors, IPOs, ISS, Shareholder rights, Shareholder voting, Tech companies Reconsideration of Pay Ratio Rule Implementation Posted by Michael S. [read post]

Park, University of California, Los Angeles , on Friday, June 3, 2016 Tags: Disclosure, Dodd-Frank Act, Federalism, Investor protection, Misconduct, Rule 10b-5, Securities Act, Securities fraud, Securities regulation, Shareholder value, SOX, State law, Stock mispricing Remarks on Optimizing the Equity Markets Posted by Mary Jo White, U.S. [read post]

Recently, 21 state attorneys general sent a letter to proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis asserting that these firms may be violating their contracts with the states’ investment vehicles and federal and state laws by adopting voting policies and making voting recommendations that take into consideration climate change and DEI matters. [read post]