Environmental and safety risks hot topics during proxy season
This proxy season has seen activist investors push a slew of resolutions aimed at forcing companies to provide more disclosure...
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Groupon files IPO
Not since Lady Gaga’s arrival at the Oscars have heads turned so quickly as they did with the preliminary S1 filing for the hotly...
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E&Y acquisition may affect shareholder value
Ernst & Young’s (E&Y) recent acquisition of Proxy Governance Inc (PGI) can potentially have a two-fold effect on the shareholder...
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Tales from Disney's annual meeting
Citing Apple chief executive Steve Jobs’ 
relatively low meeting attendance as a cause for concern, ISS and Glass Lewis have both...
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Study: Proxy firms can harm shareholder value
A recent study released by The Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University shows that firms that adopt stock...
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The write approach to shareholder communications?
In Jamie Dimon’s annual letter to shareholders, published at the beginning of April and stretching to 32 pages, the chief...
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Boardroom fight: Glass Lewis backs Actelion directors against hedge fund as ISS splits its support
Actelion, Europe’s largest biopharmaceutical company, has been gaining a lot of attention in anticipation of its May 5 annual...
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Comment: Why proxy solicitation firms add value
I am embarrassed to admit it, but I was in IR for a long time before I realized proxy solicitation firms even existed. For several...
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Is Sokol prison-bound?
For David Sokol to be found liable for the circumstances that led him to resign from Berkshire Hathaway last week, he has to have...
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Disney takes on ISS in anticipation of its annual meeting
ISS recommended that investors vote ‘no’ on the company’s executive compensation plan, and Disney didn’t take it lying down. In an...
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