Huge News On The Abandoned Property Front
As we just learned at the SSA conference in July, a sweeping re-draft of the so-called Uniform Abandoned Property Act has been approved, that would, among other things, call for state treasurers to wait at least three years before selling any “underlying securities” deemed abandoned…
Insights on some of the most important tools and skill-sets that public companies need to have at the ready as we head into the 2017 proxy season…
Interview with Bruce Goldfarb, President & CEO of Okapi Partners
Improve Your Retail Vote
Interview with Ellen Philip, ELLEN PHILIP Associates The Optimizer's Editor In Chief Interviews Ellen Philip of Ellen Philip Associates “Among the first things that issuers need to do this year, is to step back a bit, take a hard, fresh, numbers-oriented look at their...
Yikes – They’re Back, As Warned: Last-Minute Proxy Fights… And Supposedly “Irrevocable” Proxies
And Those Dangerous “Floor Votes” Too… Very Badly Advised!
Proxy Statements Transitioning From Compliance To Communications-Focused Documents
By Ron Schneider, Director, Corporate Governance Services, RR Donnelley
Another Proxy Voting Scam – And The Scamsters – Revealed
SCAMSTERS MASQUERADING AS INVESTORS MANUFACTURE PROXY VOTES IN A FAILED AT EMPT TO SEAL A DEAL…THE BIG SURPRISE? NOTHING REALLY NEW HERE: WHO’S WATCHING THE PROXY BIZ ANYWAY?
Our Top Takeaways From The Spring 2015 Annual Meeting Season
The biggest takeaway, by far, is how much smooth sailing those proxy access proposals with 3% ownership and 3-year holding periods encountered… pretty much as we predicted.
The Best, The Worst… And The Weirdest Annual Meeting Developments We Saw This Spring
Let’s lead off on a high note, with some of the best meetings your editor attended – and where there were some nice innovations worth passing along:
Our Promised Checklist Of The Best Practices To Gear Up Early For Your Annual Meeting of Shareholders
For the majority of our readers, their annual meetings are six months or more away as we write this…
Holy Land Priciples Seem Cool But Generate Lots Of Heat At Shareholder Meetings: Coming Soon To 500+ Companies
Nine shareholder resolutions will come to a vote in 2016 on The Holy Land Principles – “an 8-point corporate code of conduct for American companies doing business in Israel-Palestine” according to a press release signed by the fiery Irish-American priest and preacher, Father Sean Mc Manus.
