Coming so late in the life of the current parliamentary term, the City may be forgiven for already turning attention from yesterday’s budget statement to post-election budgetary announcements for substantive financial and fiscal policy developments. However, hidden in the text …
Read MoreThe proxy season is far from over, writes Allie Monaco, Head of Research at ProxyGovernance. In the last two weeks of May, nearly 170 shareholder proposals will come to a vote at 75 U.S. companies. Of these proposals, 35% relate …
Read MoreAmendments to ‘Broker Voting Rule’ yield unexpected results
The long-awaited change to NYSE Rule 452, effective Jan. 1, 2010, reclassifying uncontested director elections as ‘non-routine’ items, thereby eliminating the discretion of brokers to vote uninstructed shares, also makes it more …
Read MoreWhile shareholder resolutions and countermotions are still relatively rare in Europe, they are a core feature of the US market. Here Allie Monaco of ProxyGovernance has highlighted some of February and March’s more interesting proposals.…
Read MoreThe governmental responses to the financial crisis have been many and varied with markedly different approaches being taken on both sides of the Atlantic. One common strand between the European and US administrations has been the role of institutional shareholders …
Read MoreUS president Barack Obama took his fight for financial reform to the heart of Wall Street this week and described the role of shareholders as “the last key component”.
As the US administration faces up to a tough fight in …
Read MoreNorges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the investment arm of the Norwegian central bank and asset manager for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund and the Government Petroleum Insurance Fund managing over NOK1,000bn (£107bn) in equity investments, has filed shareholder proposals at …
Read MoreEarly indications are that the 2010 proxy season will be at least as busy, if not more so, than last year when more than 640 shareholder resolutions were voted on at U.S. companies writes Mike Ryan of Manifest’s US partners, …
Read MoreAn analysis of company-selected compensation peer groups at S&P 500 companies reveals some clear favorites. 3M Co. tops the list, selected as a peer by 11% of the 374 companies that disclosed in their 2009 annual proxy statements a peer …
Read MoreThe US Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission, has sent shockwaves through the US corporate governance community and re-awakes concerns that companies will use shareholder funds to influence US political elections.
Nearly all restraint …
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