“SEC Chief Tilts Again to Activists” the WSJ headline screamed, on page-1 of the June 26 Money & Investing section, reporting on Chairman Mary Jo Wight’s remarks at the Society of Corporate Secretaries conference where she endorsed the universal ballot idea, and urged companies to adopt one voluntarily in a proxy fight…”
Another Of The Optimizer’s Governance Predictions Comes Through… In A Flash
But A Surprising Number Of Companies Dig-In Their Heels About Reviewing And Expanding Their Internal Control Environment… Do Not Be One Of Them… Or Use One Of Them, We Warn
It’s been about ten years now since we last wrote about scripophily – the semi-secret, sometimes all-consuming and, all too often, totally illicit love for old stock certificates.
And Promise A Film On “The Biggest Financial Industry Cover-Up In History”
“I am disappointed that you have not been the strong leader that many had hoped for and that you promised to be” Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Three cheers for the Shareholder Services Association and the Securities Transfer Association for taking the initiative here!
In March of this year, plaintiffs JLI INVEST S.A., and LIN INVEST S.A., filed suit in Massachussetts against Computershare Trust Company and related subsids, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Merck and Co. and a Merck subsid…
Plains, a Delaware limited partnership, has filed a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief from the state-initiated unclaimed property audit.
Your editor went to the annual meeting of the Midwest Securities Transfer Association a few months ago, where he was stunned to learn that third-party abandoned property “auditors” were suddenly propagating like flies on a big, fat, abandoned pie…
The Board of the Shareholder Services Association (the “SSA”) will have the honor of ringing the iconic New York Stock Exchange closing bell at the end of trading on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, in celebration of the SSA’s 70th anniversary.
An Interview with Erwin Groenendal of Brooklyn-Based Tangelo Software
Long-term readers will recall, we hope, our many articles on “The Best and Worst Annual Meeting Materials to Cross Our Desk” each year – many of which inspired readers to do better, we were told – many of which engendered hearty belly-laughs – and some of which inspired pure pity, for the poor fools who’d fouled up badly.
Corporate Secretaries, meeting planners, IRO folks andothergovernanceprofessionalsaskabout Annual Meeting Briefing-Book practices at virtually every conference on such matters we’ve ever attended.
In late March, your editor attended a dinner meeting where a very, very lively discussion of the newest and “hottest topics” that attendees feel are out there on the Annual Meeting front super- charged the entire evening.
Pity poor Citi – whose top management team – and board – were taken totally by surprise when the Fed refused to allow Citi to increase the quarterly dividend from a measly penny a share and to buy back shares to prop up the stock – as everyone, including the investor community, was confidently expecting – and where the bombshell dropped just a few weeks before Citi’s annual meeting.
Getting Out The “Employee Vote”… Including Votes From Officers… And Directors…
Our Top 10 Tips For A Safe And Orderly Meeting
A Deciding Factor In Close Elections
Listen to hear their insights on this year’s annual meeting season.