SEC creates new senior climate change role

The Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has shelved proposals that would have limited the power of shareholder advisory firms in corporate decision making.

The SEC is scrapping a portion of its proposal that would have forced proxy advisers to submit …

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AGM Season

Virtual AGMs: Time to prepare

Companies, regulators and markets are increasingly realising that the AGM season will be severely disrupted by the COVID19 pandemic.

As social distancing becomes the norm, traditional annual meetings where shareholders gather to hear CEO presentations …

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SEC creates new senior climate change role

SEC fallout grows as row rages over amendments

A prominent SEC Commissioner has admitted that the US regulator needs to rethink parts of its proxy voting rule amendments.

Speaking at the Council of Institutional Investors’ 2020 conference this week, Commissioner …

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SEC urged to unleash sweeping changes to proxy system

SEC urged to unleash sweeping changes to proxy system

As the SEC’s Proxy Plumbing saga rumbles on, the Commission has signalled that public companies, shareholders and other stakeholders in the US may soon get the transparency in the proxy system …

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SEC lambasted over shareholder rights change as companies fail to meet ESG targets

SEC’s back to work priorities: proxy plumbing & human capital reporting

As the SEC returns to work after the shutdown, Commission chairman, Jay Clayton has started to lay out his departments work for the coming year. During a conference call …

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SEC chairman Jay Clayton

Proxy Plumbing: SEC Re-opens Investigations

Plans to review US proxy plumbing infrastructure “long overdue, but very welcome”.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced it will re-examine the US proxy voting system. 

The US securities regulator, the Securities and Exchange

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EU capital market union is being hampered by a  silo-ed approach to corporate governance policy, according to a report, Governance Policy in the European Union: Through an Investor’s Lens, published by the CFA Institute.

The report, the result …

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Back in September 2011, the FT ran a story exploring the frustrations felt by investors over complexity and opacity in the voting chain (“Call for clarity in proxy voting process”, FTfm, 12th September 2011). In many ways …

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The simple but powerful statement of solidarity with the notion of a free society that articulated the public reaction to the recent horrific events at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris shows just how important freedom is in our …

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April is probably not the ideal month to launch a consultation for anyone involved in corporate governance, nevertheless the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) issued a call for comment on its proposed  best practice guidance for the proxy research industry. The

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