VIA E-MAIL ([email protected]) Global Policy Board Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. 2099 Gaither Road Rockville, Maryland 20850 Re: ISS 2012 Proxy Voting Policies – Proxy Access […]
Pushback From SEC Staff – Shareholder Appraisal Rights
“Stunning”, “arbitrary”, “unjustifiied” … “questionable”: these are some of the words individual shareowners are using to describe the SEC handling of six corporations’ requests to […]
Proxy Access: A New Version – Shareholder Preemptive Rights
Update: This is a revised version of an earlier post this month. I’ve deleted that post because I don’t want anyone to mistakenly use the […]
Test Driving the USPX Guidelines on Say-on-Pay
Brett Davidson is a member of the United States Proxy Exchange Website and publishes Investletter. He serves on the committee that released the USPX guidelines for voting […]
The SEC’s Problem With the First Amendment – Private Shareholder Rights
The SEC’s approach to regulating US securities markets relies on controlling speech: they compel “disclosures”, prohibit certain statements, and impose onerous requirements on others. All […]