Canadian proxy outlook 2013
As Canada enters its 2013 proxy season, there are a number of new realities that companies will have to prepare for. Significant...
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2013 proxy season outlook
For the past two proxy seasons, public companies reporting a public float below $75 million have watched from the sidelines as...
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Proxy Preview Sees Climate-Related Resolutions Expanding
There has been an intensified effort by investors to push for changes in corporate policy on climate change in the wake of...
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Disney shareholders reject call to split chairman and CEO roles
Shareholders of Walt Disney have voted against the advice of proxy advisers and pension funds and rejected proposals that would...
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S&P 500 moving towards declassification, annual board elections
A majority of S& P 500 companies that had boards elected by holders of different classifications of stock at the beginning of 2012...
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Lessons from proxy season 2012
There are a number of lessons companies should have learned from the 2012 proxy season, when pressure from shareholder activists...
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Why activists are winning proxy fights
Issuers need to take note because when it comes to proxy fights, the activists are winning. Activist shareholders seeking...
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Reforming Canada’s proxy voting system
There is a growing consensus that the proxy voting system, and indeed the wider system of shareholder democracy in Canada, is...
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Best practices for online shareholder meetings
Is it time for all shareholder meetings to go virtual? Legally that can’t happen yet, but there is a movement by shareholders and...
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Proxy process may 'harm average investor', notes proxy monitor 2012 report
A small group of shareholders, including groups with specific policy, political or religious goals, sponsored the majority of...
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