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1 Sep 2009, 11:14 am
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]
27 May 2011, 10:11 am
Constellation Energy Group is the latest S&P 500 firm to have its pay practices rejected by investors, according to news reports. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 1:31 pm
Forty-two large-cap companies have agreed to declassify their boards in response to shareholder proposals, according to Harvard Law School’s Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), which is coordinating this investor campaign. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 11:03 am
Earlier this week, ISS hosted webinars to discuss its 2012 European and U.S. policy updates. [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 11:36 am
The shareholder campaign for advisory votes on executive pay received another boost last week when the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) endorsed the idea. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 8:57 am
Over the weekend, U.S. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 12:10 pm
Two compensation committee members at Nabors Industries received about 48 percent opposition at the company’s annual meeting on Tuesday, according to the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), which waged a “vote no” campaign against the two directors. [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 10:18 am
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) and Relational Investors are threatening to wage a proxy fight at Occidental Petroleum over the oil company’s compensation practices and the board’s failure to abide by its retirement policy or announce a succession plan for its long-serving chief executive and chairman. [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 6:49 am
On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced several measures that seek to improve the rate of proxy voting by individual investors.The SEC finalized amendments to its so-called “e-proxy rules,” under which companies may send a notice about the online availability of proxy materials, instead of bearing the expense of mailing a full set of proxy materials to every investor. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 1:53 pm
The recent upheaval in the U.S. financial industry has generated another flurry of securities class-action lawsuits. [read post]
6 May 2010, 2:13 pm
Senator Thomas Carper, a Democrat from Delaware, introduced amendments May 6 that seek to remove the proxy access and majority voting provisions from Senator Christopher Dodd's financial reform bill, which is now being debated on the floor of the U.S. [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 10:18 am
U.S. lawmakers are to meet Thursday to start negotiating over the differences between the House and Senate bills on financial reform. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 12:19 pm
ISS has released its final 2011 U.S. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 7:06 am
While many large issuers have improved their governance practices in recent years, the practices at newly public companies--even those that aren’t controlled--have remained mostly unchanged, according to a recent report from the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell.The law firm surveyed the governance provisions of the 50 largest new companies (excluding controlled firms, real estate investment trusts, trusts, and blank check companies) that had initial public offerings between Jan. 1,… [read post]
17 May 2011, 7:53 pm
Five more U.S. companies have reported that they failed to receive majority support during their advisory votes on executive compensation. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 1:45 pm
It's been more than 14 months since the signing of the Dodd-Frank Act, which directed the Securities and Exchange Commission to establish a new Investor Advisory Committee.So far, the SEC has not publicly announced a timetable for creating this panel, and Commissioner Luis Aguilar and some investors are asking why. [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 3:46 pm
The Laborers' International Union of North America and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are filing new proposals that seek compensation reforms at companies that participate in the U.S. [read post]
10 Nov 2011, 7:39 am
Earlier today, the U.S. [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 1:32 pm
Submitted by Daniel Smith, Australian ResearchTwelve Australian ASX 300 companies have received a first "strike" under the new "two strikes" law in Australia that allows shareholders to oust directors if a company's remuneration report receives 25 percent or more "against" votes for two consecutive years.The controversial rule, which is part of an amendment to the Australian Corporation Act that went into effect July 1, requires companies to put a "spill"… [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 11:41 am
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]
