The SEC has approved the PCAOB proposal to adopt AS 3101, The Auditor’s Report on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses an Unqualified Opinion, largely as proposed...
BlockRock has made clear that it disagrees with recent decisions by index providers to exclude companies based on governance issues. Although not mentioned by BlackRock specifically, this...
In ISS’ secondary survey results announced yesterday, the focus was primarily on compensation. We previously discussed the larger survey results here. Final policy updates that apply ...
As year-end companies begin preparing to disclose pay ratio information in their 2018 proxy statements, Glass Lewis announced that it does not intend to make the ratio a part of the proxy...
On Wednesday, the SEC proposed amendments to its disclosure requirements for public companies based on recommendations in the staff’s FAST Act Report and as part of a broader review of ...
Through the SEC open meeting announcement and Chairman Clayton’s recent testimony, it appears that the SEC is ramping up efforts to modernize public disclosure and finally implement the...
The SEC will hold an open meeting on Wednesday, October 11 at 10:00 a.m. to consider whether to propose amendments based on the recommendations in the staff’s Report on Modernization an...
ADP rejected Pershing Square’s recommendation to use a universal proxy card, arguing that given the solicitation has already commenced, changing the voting procedures for a new and unte...
Politics and governance intersect in the 2017 version of the CPA-Zicklin Index, which examines the disclosure practices of the S&P 500 companies on political spending, scores those compan...
ISS received 602 responses from 572 organizations, including 121 institutional investors, on its governance survey. Key findings on the governance principles survey are set forth below. ...
