Aug 18, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Q3, Annual Meetings, Issues, Proxy
The SEC – which was expected to vote on Direct Access to the corporate proxy machinery for the purpose of nominating director candidates on Nov. 8th, announced in early October that it would delay a vote on the final rules until early 2010 – to be sure that they would “get itright.”
Aug 15, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Q3, Annual Meetings, Best & Worst Practices, Issues, Proxy
Our Top “Practical Tips” On What To Do… To Head-Off A Potentially Career-Ending Snafu
Aug 15, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Q3, Annual Meetings, Best & Worst Practices, Issues, Proxy
Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, you know of course that NYSE Rule 452, aka the “broker-may-vote rule”, aka the “ten-day-rule”
Aug 14, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Q3, Annual Meetings, Compliance & Ethics, Issues
At long last, recognizing that under the current N&A “regime” issuers have lost fully one-half of the votes of individual investors that they’d been getting before N&A – but still insisting there might be “other explanations” for this coincident phenomenon –...
Aug 8, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Q3, Abandoned Property, Issues
In our last issue we opined that a Pay-Czar was “probably NOT a good thing”…and his recent actions have proven us right
