As You Sow releases ESG-focused proxy voting guidelines
Shareholder advocacy group As You Sow has released its first set of proxy voting guidelines, focusing on ESG issues such as...
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Shareholders & activism archive
ProxyPulse shows link between adverse Say-on-Pay and director votes
In its first edition of ProxyPulse for 2015, Broadridge Financial Services and PwC summarize the 2014 mini-season, which spans...
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Global panel of corporate secretaries discuss shareholder engagement approaches
Cross border issues such as identifying who your overseas investors are and communicating with them where they are is one of most...
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Proxy access most prominent shareholder proposal topic in 2015
Proxy access is clearly the shareholder proposal issue that is garnering the most attention this year, according to the fourth and...
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GE shareholders get proxy access
General Electric has announced that it will allow its shareholders to suggest new nominees for its corporate board, becoming the...
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Action against activism
As investor activism campaigns have become more commonplace – and better publicized – an increasing number of companies are...
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Beyond executive pay: other shareholder concerns
Public companies in the US have embraced the idea of ongoing engagement with their major shareholders only since the advent of say...
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New battlegrounds: a global activism update
Even though the challenges posed by activist investors – those that attempt to effect major change at companies through stock...
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M&A will continue to be catalyst for activist investors
Shareholder activists were more dynamic than ever before in 2014, launching 18 percent more campaigns than the previous year and...
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Let's make a deal: a look at recent activist settlements
Settling might be considered the new black within the increasingly scrutinized world
of proxy contests. Companies from Microsoft...
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