In advance of Thursday’s SEC’s Roundtable on the Proxy Process*, it is worth considering the three-part posts by the Investment Company Institute (ICI) on funds and proxy voting, and ...
ISS QualityScore Data Verification opened on Monday, November 5. Companies should be aware of the new Board Diversity Subcategory, which consists of four new factors and five existing fa...
Spencer Stuart has released its annual report on S&P 500 board practices, a useful guide for benchmarking. The overall trends demonstrate few changes from the prior year, leading the rep...
Unlike S&P and FTSE, after an 18-month consultation period, MSCI has announced that equity securities with unequal voting structures will continue to be included in the MSCI Global Invest...
PwC’s annual corporate directors survey concludes that boards are evolving and seeking change, rather than primarily valuing collegiality and consensus. The survey also shows some disc...
Under its 2019 updated guidelines, Glass Lewis will typically recommend against the members of the nominating and governance committee when a company is able to exclude a shareholder prop...
The SEC Division of Corporation Finance has issued a new Staff Legal Bulletin 14J to provide guidance on some of the issues that bedeviled us earlier this year as to when the staff would,...
The Business Roundtable (BRT) and the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) have found common ground in supporting the revised Commonsense Principles 2.0, updated from 2016 and led onc...
Two key, but limited, policy changes for U.S. companies have been proposed by ISS. The open comment period will run through 5:00 p.m. ET on November 1.
Board Gender Diversity. Beginning ...
Retail shareholders own about 30% of public companies, a fairly consistent level over the past five years, but only about 28% of those shares are voted, according to the latest issue of P...
