Proxy campaign outlook: What’s in the activists’ playbook for 2021?
Jan 13, 2021
6 min read
Looking ahead at 2021, corporate management teams will be facing a very different operating environment from the one that...
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Bank of America's year-round holistic shareholder engagement
At Bank of America, shareholder engagement is well established and supported across the executive and non-executive teams. For...
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The story behind HP’s award-winning AGM
HP’s 2020 virtual AGM was not its first rodeo – the company has been holding its annual shareholder meetings online since 2015...
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PepsiCo finds governance success through evolution
‘Leadership across the board’ is how one of the Corporate Secretary judges describes PepsiCo’s governance team, which has looked...
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Starting a new governance journey at Nuance
Wendy Cassity, executive vice president and chief legal officer at Nuance Communications, joined the company in late 2018 with a...
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Corporate access teams playing role in off-season engagement
As off-season shareholder engagement continues to rise, buy-side corporate access teams are stepping in to assist with the...
Comment: Take care when considering buybacks
Buybacks have undergone a meteoric rise since the turn of the 21st century, overtaking dividends as the preferred means to return...
Activism in a pandemic: Tampered appetites and the rise of climate activism
Companies across the US, Canada, continental Europe and the UK had something of a respite from shareholder activism this year. The...
SEC may ‘shelve’ 13F proposal, according to Bloomberg report
The SEC’s controversial proposal to relieve 89 percent of asset managers from filing quarterly ownership forms could be ‘shelved,’...
Investors miss field trips under Covid-19
Although the switch to virtual investor relations (IR) during the Covid-19 pandemic has brought a number of benefits, investor...
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