2014 Predictions On New Shareholder Proposals
Straws In The Wind: Our Predictions On ‘Big New Things’ Coming Soon On The Shareholder Proposal Scene
Top Things To Watch At ISS
Interview With Pat Mcgurn, Special Counsel To ISS
Our Top-Ten Tips On Dealing With Activist Investors, Shareholder Proponents, Gadflies – And Other Would-Be Speakers – At Shareholder Meetings
Our Top-Ten Tips On Dealing With Activist Investors, Shareholder Proponents, Gadflies – And Other Would-Be Speakers – At Shareholder Meetings
“Ninety-Nine-Percenters” Try To Take Over A Dozen Or So Annual Meetings This Year
Still More Tips On Being Well Prepared
Creating A Proactive “Shareholder Engagement” Plan
Having A Proactive “Shareholder Engagement” Plan Seems To Be The Top Priority Of Smart Companies Going Forward: A Great Job-Booster – When Done Right – So Start Preparing Now Let’s be sure to note that at many companies that sniffed potential trouble in the wings and...We have been making a huge effort to engage small and mid-cap companies
An Interview With Janice Hester-Amey, Portfolio Manager, Corporate Governance, California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS)
Lots Of Fresh Questions…And Answers… On Meeting Adjournments, On “All Other Business”
And On Calculating, Reporting On And Describing Those Say-On-Pay And Say-When-On-Pay Results….
Early Returns From The Annual Meeting Front
Lots Of Good News, But Some Big, Bad Surprises Are Still In Store For The Unwary
What’s The Next Big Thing On The Corporate Governance Front?
Holding Directors’ Feet To The Fire Over The Cost Of Capital – And Especially Over Their Stewardship Of The Company’S Stash Of Shareholders’ Cash: Finally…A Governance Reform Worth Making We Say
Appeals Court Vacates The SEC’s Proxy Access Rule, With Major Criticisms Of The SEC’s Sloppy Work
But Beware Of What You Wished For Issuers….You May Be Worse Off Than With The Access Rule
Our Final Wrap-Up On The Spring 2011 Annual Meeting Season…
The biggest take-away from this season – as we noted last issue too – is the ease with which Says On Pay sailed by: A just-released Conference Board study
Our Top Ten Tips On Preparing For The 2012 Proxy Season
Our number-one tip is simply to understand exactly what kind of voters OWN your stock as of the record date, along with the percentage of the total voting power that each segment owns and how each “segment” voted…or failed to vote at your last meeting.
A Few Early Warnings As We Begin To Gear Up For The 2012 Annual Meeting Season
For Starters; “Svedes – Get Set To Chase Dem Drunk Norvegians Trew De Veeds!”
Getting Your Message Across “Effective Engagement Is Critical…”
Some practical advice from Ken Bertsch, President of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals – and a prominent institutional investor analyst and spokesperson in his former career.
New Technology Offers Greater Opportunity For Shareholder Engagement
By John P. Dunn, Vice President Corporate Issuer Sales Richard Barron, a New Jersey advertising executive, recently attended his first annual shareholder meeting…while sitting in an airport. “I was able to attend virtually, thanks to WiFi” he explains, “and I...Laurel Hill Advisory Group
An Interview With Dr. William J. Catacosinos, Chairman, Laurel Hill Advisory Group
Some “Early Returns” From The Annual Meeting Front:
It’s still early-days as we write this, but a few trends are emerging that seem worth a mention
These May Be Our Top-Tips Ever On How To Guarantee A More “Civil” Annual Meeting
Last year, we attended the meeting of a long-term client where we were shocked! Shocked!…to see more women wearing hats and gloves – and more men carrying hats – than we have seen in one place since the 1950s.
An Interim Report On Virtual Annual Meetings
Guess what? It’s been nine years since the first “virtual only” annual meeting…at Inforte…
Our 2010 Meeting Season Roundup
What, If Anything, Can We Learn – To Better Prepare For 2011?
Some Notes From The Virtual-Meeting Front
So far this season, there have been 20 “Virtual Shareholder Meetings”: About half were “totally virtual meetings” – held totally in cyberspace – and the rest were so-called “hybrid virtual meetings”
A Recordbreaking Number Of Glitches Cross Our Desk In The Spring 2010 Annual Meeting Season
Indicative, We Think, Of A Serious Level Of “Inattention To Details” And A Serious Industry Brain-Drain
Optimizer To Activists And Noisemakers Re: Virtual Meetings: You Folks Are Really Missing The Boat Here!
Despite the many good things your editor, and other managers and consumers of Virtual Meetings have to say about them, they’ve been coming under heavy fire of late. Activist Tim Smith of Walden Asset Management has presented Intel, Broadridge Financial Solutions and...Reaching Out To Investors… When Time Is Of The Essence? And There’s No Quick Solution On Your Shelf
The Optimizer Editor’s Annual Interview With Ellen Philip And Cal Donly Of Ellen Philip Associates
Reaching Out To Investors Via The Proxy Statement
The Optimizer Interviews Dannette Smith, Secretary To The Board Of Unitedhealth Group, Incorporated, The Winner Of Corporate Secretary Magazine’s 2010 Award For Best Proxy Statement
