Aug 18, 2010 | 2010, 2010 Q2, Annual Meetings, Issues, Proxy
Whether you call it “DOFRA” as Pat McGurn calls it, or “DODFRA”, to give Dodd and Frank equal billing, the Dodd-Frank act passed both houses of congress as we were drafting this issue and will likely be law before we go to press.
Aug 15, 2010 | 2010, 2010 Q2, Annual Meetings, Best & Worst Practices, Corporate Governance, Issues, Proxy, The Basics
So far this year, we’ve gotten more questions about annual and special meeting admission criteria than about any other topic…except that is, for the perennial question “what’s up with those transfer agents?”
Aug 15, 2010 | 2010, 2010 Q2, Activist Investors, Annual Meetings, Issues, Proxy
What, If Anything, Can We Learn – To Better Prepare For 2011?
Aug 15, 2010 | 2010, 2010 Q2, Activist Investors, Annual Meetings, Issues, Proxy, Virtual Meetings
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”
Aug 15, 2010 | 2010, 2010 Q2, Activist Investors, Annual Meetings, Best & Worst Practices, Issues, Proxy
Indicative, We Think, Of A Serious Level Of “Inattention To Details” And A Serious Industry Brain-Drain
Aug 14, 2010 | 2010, 2010 Q2, Annual Meetings, Best & Worst Practices, Compliance & Ethics, Corporate Governance, Issues
And Maybe To Consider Moving To A “Simple Majority Vote” To Pass All But The Most Economically Important Proposals A lot of speculation went on last year and this about the potential effect of the “broker may NOT vote rule”…which turned out to be mainly a non-issue...
