Just 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 to exclude broker votes from all director elections starting 1st January 2010. Earlier this year Bank of […]
Read MoreUS investors angered by the meltdown in the US financial markets have a new resource to campaign for better governance. ShareOwners.org is a social networking site based on Ning, the community web tool said to have played a central role in the success of President Obama’s election campaign. ShareOwners has some big names behind its campaign […]
Read MoreThe SEC has three key governance reforms on the agenda for its July 1 “Sunshine Act Meeting” : Item 1: The Commission will consider whether to propose amendments to the proxy rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to set forth requirements for U.S. registrants that have received financial assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program […]
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