Take Ownership of Your Governance: Don’t Wait for Activists to Start the Conversation

Navigating M&A and Shareholder Activism: Key Insights for 2025 Co-Editor Peder Hagberg interviews Bob Marese, President of MacKenzie Partners, on current trends in mergers and acquisitions, shareholder engagement, activism, and effective board governance heading...

Leveling the Playing Field of Corporate and Shareholder Transparency

A Call to Action from Joseph Caruso, CEO, Alliance Advisors Joe Caruso: Over the past few years, there’s been a growing call for greater corporate transparency, especially from government agencies, institutional investors, and proxy advisory firms. But are we really...

Reflections on “Engaging with Investors”

Over the Past 30+ Years – And Advice for Effectively Engaging Now – From Two Pioneers of Good Corporate Governance When we announced the theme for this year’s Special Supplement to the OPTIMIZER—our thirtieth edition—one of our advertisers noted that “thirty years...

Tim Smith – “The Lion of Responsible Investing”

Tim Smith, who began his career in the early 1970s at the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) – has retired from the Boston Trust Walden Company at year-end 2022, where he’d worked for over 20 years. But - great news, and no big surprise to us - in...

Supreme Court In British Columbia Swats Down “Mosquito”; Sets Aside Meeting Results And Orders Company To Call A New Meeting

In a landmark case that will, no doubt, influence proxy voting procedures here in the U.S. as well, a British Columbia judge ruled in favor of the Petitioner – International Energy and Mineral Resources Investment Ltd. —a Hong Kong company that was seeking to oust directors of Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines Limited

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