24 companies have adopted fee-shifting bylaws since May, according to Professor John Coffee in his testimony before the SEC Investor Advisory Committee. Fee-shifting bylaws impose a “lo...
According to Proxy Voting Analytics by The Conference Board, hedge funds submitted 39 shareholder proposals, an increase from 24 last year, and accounted for slightly more than 5% of the ...
For companies considering a review of the audit committee disclosure in proxy statements, the recent review by EY’s Center for Board Matters provides several insights on some of the add...
Last Wednesday, an 8-K from Icahn Enterprises L.P. reported that its chairman, Carl Icahn, intends to use Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and a particular website (www. www.shareholderssquareta...
ISS has published its draft 2015 voting policies for public comment, which are due on October 29. The final release is expected around November 7 and any new updates will apply for meetin...
SEC Chair White signaled that the proposed rules on CEO pay ratio would be adopted before the end of the year at a Senate Banking Committee hearing last month, or at least that was her ?...
Since some companies have made significant changes to the presentation of their proxy statements, Keith Higgins, Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, is encouraging co...
91% of big companies disclose the existence of anti-hedging policies and 66% mention anti-pledging policies, according to the Meridian 2014 Governance and Design Survey, which examined th...
The Center for Political Accountability has published the 2014 CPA-Zicklin Index, which rates 300 companies in the S&P 500 on their disclosure of corporate political spending. Nearly half...
ISS released the results of its policy survey. The responses, from 105 individual institutional investors and 255 members of the corporate issuer community (including advisers), may infor...
