As 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.
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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 MoreJudging by this week’s crop of enforcement stories, the US securities regulator, The Securities & Exchange Commission appears to be relaunching itself with renewed vigour. The week of August 3rd to 7th is probably going to go down in history …
Read MoreNorthern Rock’s former shareholders have lost their bid for a judicial review of the nationalisation compensation scheme but have vowed to press their claims in the the House of Lords and, potentially, the European Court of Human Rights. The House …
Read MoreA research study by Manifest’s US partners, PROXYGovernance Inc(PGI), reveals some interesting trends about US board governance. PGI’s review of Russell 3000 companies holding their 2009 annual meeting prior to July 1 reveals that boards of financial services …
Read MoreAny choral singer will be familiar with the concept: a choir singing an acapella section will often naturally go ‘flat and lose pitch’, only to have to painfully re-adjust pitch when the orchestra joins in. Conversely, if the orchestra were …
Read MoreThe Investors Working Group, a bi-partisan panel of experts created in February 2009 by the Council of Institutional Investors and the CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity, has released its recommendations for reform and modernisation of the US financial …
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