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
Reaching Out To Institutional Investors
Some Thoughts – And Lots Of Practical Tips – From Steven L. Brown, Director Of Corporate Governance, TIAA-CREF
Early Returns From The Annual Meeting Front: No Surprise; It’s All About The Money In 2009 Look Out Below… For Falling Directors
For openers, how about 100+ proposals for shareholders to have a “say on pay”?
The 2009 Proxy Season Overview: Much Bad Sailing… But Batten Down The Hatches For Worse Weather In 2010
The season opened with a big loud bang, when Bank of America’s chairman Ken Lewis was stripped of his chairmanship by a binding vote to separate the Chairman and CEO roles.
Investor Access To The Director Nominating And Voting Machinery: A Certainty For 2010?
We came away from the Society’s annual conference almost 100% certain that there would be “proxy access” in time for the 2010 meeting season.
A Few New Developments To Watch That Crossed Our Path This Season
A Delaware court ruled that a binding-bylaw proposal that would prohibit the company from seating any director who failed to achieve a majority vote in an uncontested election had to be included on the ballot at Trico Marine Corporation…
Our Last-Ditch Effort To Prevent The Federalization Of Shareholder Meetings
We Also Urge The SEC To Urgently Fix The Scandalous Defects In Our Old And Badly Broken “Proxy Plumbing” Systems Before Forging Ahead… And Tell Them How To Do It
Some Special Advice For CFOs – And For Small And Mid-Cap Companies – On “Engaging” Investors, And On The Rules Of Engagement… And On The Important Dos And Don’ts When It Comes To Being Prepared For A Potentially Unfriendly Approach By One Or More Investors…
An interview with Bruce Goldfarb, President & CEO and Patrick McHugh, Senior Managing Director of Okapi Partners
Proxy Access? A Lot Of Very Smart People Talking About A Very Stupid Issue.
An Interview With Ed Durkin, Director, Corporate Affairs Department, United Brotherhood Of Carpenters
With The 2008 Annual Meeting Season Barely Underway, It’s Already Shaping Up To Be The Biggest And Best Ever… For Activists That Is
The first thing to catch our eye; the number of “official proxy fights” already underway is 33% higher than last year ’s previously record-breaking rate
Top Take-Aways On The Spring ’08 Annual Meeting Season:
Every year around this time we try to reflect on the Spring Annual Meeting Season – to try to make some sense out of all the things we saw, and heard, and read…
Executive Compensation – The Activist Battleground For 2009
By Reid Pearson, Managing Director, The Altman Group, Inc.
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
