Icahn pushes eBay for PayPal spinoff, 2 board seats
The 2014 proxy season is shaping up as a busy one for Carl Icahn. As if pressuring Apple to expand its planned share repurchase...
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Webcast: Compensation a key concern for 2014 proxy season
From new ways to gauge the independence of compensation committees and their advisors to changing company bylaws, the 2014 proxy...
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Investor pressure prompts Apple board to diversify
Apple has taken its first steps to diversifying its ruling board after facing pressure from its shareholders, moving to avoid a...
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Improving your proxy statement
Corporate governance can sometimes be a game of inches, where a single poorly worded phrase, confusing line graph or drab font in...
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CII petitions SEC for universal proxy cards
In an age when people rely on the Internet for so many aspects of their daily lives, it seems antiquated to deny flexibility to...
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Winning over the board at Timken
At global steel company Timken’s annual meeting in May, a proposal by pension fund CalSTRS and activist investment fund Relational...
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Proxy season: What’s in, what’s out
The 2013 proxy season was noteworthy for a sea change in shareholder engagement by companies. The main catalyst was increased...
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New ISS policies on CEO pay, overboarding, independent directors
Proxy advisory firm ISS will increase its scrutiny of directors’ response to majority-supported shareholder proposals in the US in...
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ISS targets new bylaw regarding director qualifications
In what could be seen as the opening salvo of proxy season 2014, ISS has recommended that Provident Financial Holdings...
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Value of shareholder activism debated at Georgetown-Financial Times forum
There aren’t enough appropriate activist targets to justify the proliferation of activist funds in recent years, Barry Rosenstein...
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