Our Top Takeaways From The Spring 2015 Annual Meeting Season
The biggest takeaway, by far, is how much smooth sailing those proxy access proposals with 3% ownership and 3-year holding periods encountered… pretty much as we predicted.
The Best, The Worst… And The Weirdest Annual Meeting Developments We Saw This Spring
Let’s lead off on a high note, with some of the best meetings your editor attended – and where there were some nice innovations worth passing along:
Direct Stock Purchase And Dividend Reinvestment Plans
We Guarantee That Your Company Will Benefit From A Fresh And Careful Re-Look… And Maybe A Major Makeover… And If You Don’t Have One, You Should Take A Look At That Too
New Action Expected In The Drive For “Universal Ballots”: An SEC “Tilt” To Favor Activism? We Say It Does Not
“SEC Chief Tilts Again to Activists” the WSJ headline screamed, on page-1 of the June 26 Money & Investing section, reporting on Chairman Mary Jo Wight’s remarks at the Society of Corporate Secretaries conference where she endorsed the universal ballot idea, and urged companies to adopt one voluntarily in a proxy fight…”
Out Of Our In-Box: Whistle Blowers Spark Lawsuits Against The Four Big ADR Depositary Banks
And Promise A Film On “The Biggest Financial Industry Cover-Up In History”
Messin’ With Mary Jo: She and The SEC As A Whole–Face A Firestorm Of Criticism
“I am disappointed that you have not been the strong leader that many had hoped for and that you promised to be” Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
