The NYSE has asked the SEC to delay the effectiveness of its recently approved rule requiring listed companies to provide notice to the Exchange at least 10 minutes before making a public...
Deloitte and EY both recently published studies about audit committee disclosure in the proxy statements of the largest companies. Deloitte examined the S&P 100 while EY concentrated on ...
In response to a statutory requirement, the SEC Staff of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) has issued a lengthy report to Congress on the combined impacts of the Dodd-Fran...
For US companies, the detailed portion of the ISS benchmark survey targets compensation matters, along with one question on poison pills:
Short-Term Poison Pills. ISS asks whether it shou...
ISS has launched its benchmark policy survey, which helps formulate policies that guides the proxy advisory firm’s voting recommendations. For the first time, the policy has two parts: ...
The Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, part of the Chamber of Commerce, issued seven recommendations for shareholder proposal reform. On the same day, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton s...
The 2017 season that just passed witnessed two kinds of proposals asking companies to amend existing proxy access bylaws. The first type sent to companies earlier in the season sought to ...
Like other federal agencies, the SEC recently released its regulatory agenda. The agenda is published by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and B...
With 371 public campaigns against U.S. companies, according to a recent J.P. Morgan report on the new normal in shareholder activism, the 2017 proxy season proved to be fairly active. Alt...
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton gave his first public address yesterday, with some meaningful remarks directed at public company regulations.
The long-term interest of the Main Street Investor (...
