Icahn’s new megaphone for shareholder activism
Is legendary investor activist and corporate raider Carl Icahn trying to claim the moral high ground on corporate governance with...
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Political disclosures: reaching the tipping point
Activist shareholders have been clamoring for years for greater disclosure on corporate political spending, and the 2013 proxy...
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Retail investors seen as key to firms struggling on say on pay, says ProxyPulse
Equity ownership among institutional investors rose two percentage points from 2012 to 67 percent of street shares, versus 33...
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Board members more tolerant of shareholder dissent
Corporate directors care less about the level of shareholder support for board members in elections this year as shareholders...
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Icahn drops bid for control of Dell
Carl Icahn has thrown in the towel in his more than year-long campaign to gain control of Dell, just three days before a...
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ISS hints at 2014 focus on boardrooms
Fresh from a 2013 season laden with controversy over executive pay and proxy access, proxy advisory firm ISS is now turning its...
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Activist investors targeting larger companies
Activist shareholders are setting their sights on larger companies, according to the latest report from Activist Insight, a UK...
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Would Comptroller Spitzer be good for governance?
Eliot Spitzer, if he wins election as New York City’s next comptroller, could be in an interesting position to shine a brighter...
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Harvard group's board declassification campaign accelerates
The campaign to move to annual election of board members, launched last year by a Harvard Law School-led team of shareholder...
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ProxyPulse argues for greater shareholder engagement
The second edition of ProxyPulse, released on July 8, shows that companies that aren’t getting at least 70 percent approval for...
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