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Not for the first time, proof of share ownership is being used to stymie shareholder engagement and activism. This time it’s France where Franco-American Financier and Activist Guy Wyser-Pratte is attempting to bring about changes at Lagardère SCA.
With echoes …
Read MoreOver at CorpGov.net Jim McRitchie is doing his bit to raise some vital issues about the quality of the US proxy system.
This time, Jim is airing doubts about the quality of informatiion presented to shareholders on 3rd party voting …
Read MoreSo, it’s 16:22pm the day after after Infineon’s highly contentious AGM. We have the streaming video from the meeting, we have the presentations, we even have a press release announcing the votes “For” the board candidates. But do we have …
Read MoreA bizarre proxy fight at US life sciences company CNS Response Inc appears to hinge on the validity of a special meeting, writes Scott Fenn of ProxyGovernance. In one of the stranger US proxy contests witnessed in recent years, Leonard …
Read MoreYet again Ryanair stands out amongst its peers as being one of Europe’s most shareholder unfriendly companies.
Since the introduction of the 2006 Combined Code recommendations that companies should provide their shareholders with a detailed breakdown of voting results, Ryanair …
Read MorePreliminary data from the 2009 proxy season compiled by Manifest’s US partner, PROXY Governance, show that the number and percentage of votes withheld for director nominees continue to increase — with the percentage of director nominees who had at least …
Read MoreAs previously reported, the SEC is proposing that US proxy voting results should be published within 4 days rather than waiting for the next quarterly return to be lodged, which is the majority practice at the moment.
In many parts …
Read MoreJust to illustrate the impact of the reformed broker voting rules in the USA, it’s interesting to look at Bank of America’s proxy votes results which were released to the SEC on Friday, 7th August.
Last month, the SEC voted …
Read MoreTesco’s AGM today saw the largest against vote (41.03%) against a share plan at a FTSE 100 company since Manifest began collecting voting data in 1996. When analysed including abstentions, it was the largest rebellion in the FTSE 100 in …
Read MoreThree AGMs have this week seen shareholder dissent reach notable levels.
Home Retail Group shareholders voted to approve the remuneration report, but dissent represented the fifth biggest rebellion on the remuneration report in the FTSE 100 so far in 2009. …
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