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1 Mar 2012, 4:07 am by Ted Allen
Earlier today, ISS announced that Clearstream has launched an enhanced proxy voting service facilitated through ISS’ ProxyExchange™ platform.The new service brings together Clearstream’s expertise of Eurobonds, equities, fixed income and investment funds with ISS’ 26 years of corporate governance experience and its deep knowledge of local market proxy voting practices for both its International Central Securities Depository (ICSD) and Central Securities Depository (CSD) for… [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]
11 Apr 2011, 10:22 am by Ted Allen
On April 5, Ameron International disclosed that a majority of investors voted against its pay practices. [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 7:18 am by Ted Allen
As part of its transparent annual policy development process, ISS has posted additional 2012 policy materials on its Policy Gateway. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 5:35 pm
With the election of Barack Obama, investor activists are hopeful that his administration will open the door to advisory votes on executive pay, proxy access, broker voting reform, and greater attention to environmental and social issues. [read post]
7 Jul 2009, 6:45 am
The U.S. government intends to take a neutral stance on non-binding shareholder proposals at Citigroup, General Motors, and other companies where it has a voting stake, according to Bloomberg News. [read post]
13 Jan 2010, 11:55 am by Ted Allen
To help investors and companies prepare for the upcoming U.S. proxy season, RiskMetrics Group has posted its 2010 Proxy Season Watchlist on pending shareholder proposals. [read post]
29 Oct 2010, 12:04 pm by Ted Allen
ISS has opened the annual comment period for its 2011 proxy voting policies.The comment period, part of ISS’ policy development process, offers institutional investors, corporate issuers, and industry constituents the opportunity to provide feedback on ISS draft policy updates.The comment period runs through Nov. 11 and solicits feedback on 11 updates to ISS’ proxy voting policy guidelines in markets worldwide. [read post]
25 May 2010, 7:32 am by Ted Allen
KeyCorp, an Ohio-based banking firm, received 55 percent investor opposition during an advisory vote on executive compensation at its May 21 annual meeting.The company is the first participant in the U.S. government's Troubled Asset Relief Program to get majority dissent over its pay practices. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 1:28 pm by Ted Allen
Ten more large-cap companies have publicly confirmed that they will put management-sponsored board declassification proposals on the ballot, according to Harvard Law School’s Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), which is coordinating a shareholder campaign on this issue.The ten companies are among the 43 S&P 500 firms that have moved toward annual elections for all directors in response to proposals from the Illinois Board of Investment, the North Carolina State Treasurer, the Nathan Cummings… [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 12:40 pm by Ted Allen
Three activist investors filed shareholder proposals this week at Valero Energy, Tesoro, and Occidental Petroleum that seek an independent board review of their policies on political expenditures. [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 8:12 am
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox still plans to hold a vote on a competing set of proxy access rules in November, even though the SEC likely won't have a full slate of commissioners. [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 10:20 am
Yesterday's 50.3 percent investor vote at Bank of America for a binding independent chair proposal should provide more momentum for the shareholder campaign for this reform. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 11:14 am by RiskMetrics Group Blog Team
Walden Asset Management is asking Chevron and more than 30 other companies to consider appointing an independent board chair In letters to the companies, Tim Smith, senior vice president of Boston-based Walden, points to a recent policy paper prepared by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 11:41 am by Ted Allen
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway's $550 billion pension fund, has filed proxy access proposals at Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Western Union, Staples, Pioneer Natural Resources, and CME Group.Overall, investors have publicly announced the submission of 11 proxy access resolutions for the 2012 proxy season, which is rather surprising, given that many governance observers had expected just a handful of resolutions.The NBIM proposals, which were… [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 7:04 am by RiskMetrics Group Blog Team
The Securities and Exchange Commission has scheduled a Dec. 16 open meeting where it will consider whether to finalize a new set of proxy disclosure rules. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 2:48 pm by Ted Allen
Four Senate Democrats said they would oppose the repeal of a Dodd-Frank Act provision that would require companies to disclose the ratio between their CEO's total compensation and the median total pay of all other employees. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 12:44 pm by Ted Allen
In the first no-action rulings of the season on this topic, the Securities and Exchange Commission has granted a request by Textron to omit a proxy access resolution, while rejecting a petition from KSW Inc.In a March 7 ruling, the staff of the SEC's Corporation Finance Division agreed with Textron's argument that retail investor Kenneth Steiner's access resolution improperly constitutes multiple proposals and thus could be excluded. [read post]
3 May 2011, 5:46 am by Ted Allen
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]