Executive Compensation – The Activist Battleground For 2009
By Reid Pearson, Managing Director, The Altman Group, Inc.
Data Security… Maybe The Hottest Topic Around These Days: What Should You Be Asking About… And Doing?
IT’S HIGH-TIME YOU RE-CHECKED THE DATA-SECURITY AT YOUR VENDORS, the Optimizer warned, in our second-quarter 2005 issue, following a truly startling cluster of major data-breaches at companies like BofA, Choice Point, Citicorp and Wachovia…and where we offered a long checklist of points to check on.
More On Notice And Access… And The Best Tip Ever On Maxing-Out On Savings While Minimizing “Lost Votes”
The Broadridge statistics on N&A are out for the period ending May 31, 2008 – the high season for annual meeting mailings – and the numbers are impressive.
Goodbye Edgar Brick Road SEC’s Mandate For Posting Proxy Documents Online Brings Benefits… But Heed These Cautions
By Rhoda Anderson, President, Rhoda Anderson Associates, and Co-Founder, EZOnlineDocuments
Sad as your editor was to see a scheduled proxy fight disappear unexpectedly, along with all the excitement such events bring…not to mention the paycheck…
Heaven help us, we were so stressed out with our own regular work we almost for got to take the tax-season stress test this year.
Some ‘Top Of Mind Insights’ As To What Issuers Need To Think About, And Plan For, After The Current Financial Industry Meltdown
Sad as your editor was to see a scheduled proxy fight disappear unexpectedly, along with all the excitement such events bring…not to mention the paycheck…
A Few ‘Quick And Easy Fixes’ For The “New SEC”
FOR STARTERS, LET’S RID OURSELVES OF THAT FALSE DICHOTOMY – AND THE TOTALLY STUPID DEBATE ABOUT ‘RULES-BASED’ VS. ‘PRINCIPLES–BASED’ REGULATION: While principles are great – and we should all have ‘em – we all need RULES for the really important stuff. The fact is...Let’s Work Together To Fix The SEC: In This Issue: It Can And Must Be Fixed, We Say…
Just a few short months ago, we met with a fairly large group of very senior public-company people…and one of the top worries that surfaced was the kind of pressure there’d be for quick regulatory ‘fixes’…with all the disruption, extra work - and all the unforeseeable...Here Are A Few Rules And Regulations That Issuers Of Securities Would Actually Like To See From The SEC… All Of Them Very Simple Fixes, We Say:
TOTALLY ELIMINATE NAKED SHORT SELLING: We still can’t figure why smart people haven’t been able to understand exactly how naked short sales cheat investors – and how they can and do create cascades of sales to spook legitimate investors into panic selling – so the...Big, Big Doings In The World Of Industry Suppliers
IN THE PROXY WORLD: D.F. King & Co., Inc., – which some industry experts consider to be the biggest U.S. proxy solicitation firm, based on gross revenues
Cost-Basis Accounting And Reporting For Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds…
And Reorg Transactions Is Widely Expected To Become Mandatory Stop This Train We Say, Or Put It On A Better Track… Before It’s Too Late, And Before Issuers Go Broke Trying To Comply
We Are Looking For Fundamental Changes To The Corporate Governance Playing Field. We Want Much Greater Accountability On The Part Of Directors. And We Want To Be Seated As Adults At The Dinner Table.
An Interview with Richard C. Ferlauto, Director Corporate Governance and Pension Investment, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO
Difficult Times Call For Drastic Measures
An Interview with Eric van Aalst and Kevin Penzien of CITCO
We Want To Get Bigger By Being Better. We’re Not Believers In The Idea That You Can Somehow Get Better Simply By Getting Bigger.
An Interview with Todd May, of Wells Fargo Shareowner Services
Computershare – Committed To Service Excellence
An interview with Jay McHale, President, US Equity Services, Computershare
Accubasis… A “Just-In-Time Solution” To A Looming And Rather Scary New Business Requirement For Publicly Traded Companies… And Their Agents…
An interview with Lori Trezza, V.P. Product Management at DTCC
Still Crazy After All These Years…
An interview with Rich Scotti of Scotti Graphics
The State Of Unclaimed Property: The Chaos Continues
An Interview with Michael Mackey, Managing Partner, Alliance Advisors, LLC
A Turnkey Solution For The Proxy Process
An Interview with Michael Mackey, Managing Partner, Alliance Advisors, LLC
“Pulling It All Together” As You Prepare To Tackle Employee-Plan Voting In 2009
An interview with Ellen Philip and Cal Donly of Ellen Philip Associates
For Laurel Hill, There Is No Denying That The Times Have Changed. And There Is Also No Denying That The Role Of The Proxy Solicitor Has Most Definitely Changed
An Interview with Tom Kies and John Siemann, Partners at Laurel Hill Advisory Group, LLC
We Ask Some Of The Smartest People We Know For Their Thoughts On The Biggest Challenges They Foresee In 2009, And For Their Advice On What To Do About Them…
Lydia Beebe, Corporate Secretary and Governance Officer, Chevron Corp.
