Policy watch
The 2009 proxy season is shaping up to be a bloody one, with institutions keen to rein in management after a year of bankruptcies...
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Shareholders & activism archive
Proxy season survival kit
A season for the ages. A history making event. The busiest and most exciting period in the business. These are just some of the...
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Field guide to investors
Stock surveillance, and more specifically shareholder ID, is key to companies facing shareholder proposals or upcoming merger...
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Identity crisis
No matter how brilliantly IROs refine their techniques, they keep bumping up against brick walls. Communicating directly with...
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Scrapping the updates
In the beginning, companies issued annual earnings guidance along with other financial information. This system worked for many...
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Take note e-proxy is on it's way
The SEC adopted e-proxy rule amendments in January 2007 in order to provide corporate issuers with the opportunity to save a...
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Building a better mouse trap
This is an old saying in both journalism and politics: ‘It’s not what you know and it’s not who you know. It’s what you know about...
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The lost art of communications
Last summer, when Pfizer announced that its directors would meet ‘face-to-face’ with representatives of the pharmaceutical giant’s...
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Proxy access end run?
Management groups speak with confidence. Regulators promise certainty. Shareholder activists talk of possible litigation. What...
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Activism escapes the credit crunch
When credit markets dried up briefly in the summer of 2006 it caused significant ripples throughout the world’s financial system...
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