Another Proxy Voting Scam – And The Scamsters – Revealed
SCAMSTERS MASQUERADING AS INVESTORS MANUFACTURE PROXY VOTES IN A FAILED AT EMPT TO SEAL A DEAL…THE BIG SURPRISE? NOTHING REALLY NEW HERE: WHO’S WATCHING THE PROXY BIZ ANYWAY?
Holy Land Priciples Seem Cool But Generate Lots Of Heat At Shareholder Meetings: Coming Soon To 500+ Companies
Nine shareholder resolutions will come to a vote in 2016 on The Holy Land Principles – “an 8-point corporate code of conduct for American companies doing business in Israel-Palestine” according to a press release signed by the fiery Irish-American priest and preacher, Father Sean Mc Manus.
Some Bests (Microsoft, Chevron And Hasbro) And Worsts (“The VWAPS Of G-E”) On The 2015 Shareholder Engagement And Meeting Materials Scenes
Regular readers are well aware, we hope, of our frustration with the overall presentations of shareholder meeting and voting materials over the web.
Activists And Other “Financial Engineers” Drive M&A And Restructuring Acivities To Alltime Highs As We Get Set For The 2016 Annual Meeting Season
An all-time record number of “deals” were announced in 2015 – falling just shy of the $5 trillion mark, at $4.7 trillion.
Our Best New Ideas To Attract A Cadre Of Solid, Long-Term Investors That Will Create Big Value For Your Company
In our last issue we published some pretty grim statistics about the huge number of individual investors that have given up on owning common stock. We are at the lowest levels since the Depression. And as we write this, the U.S. stock markets are following China’s...Can We Ever Shrink The Evergrowing Rate Of Income Inequality? Should We Care?
A Few Strategies To “Share The Wealth” - Albeit Modestly - With “Regular People” The growing gap between the incomes and total wealth of the “one-percenters” and the rest of us has been getting more and more attention of late, as well it should. And this is before...Women On Boards: Still Lagging, Despite Compelling Evidence That They Raise Shareholder Returns…What’S Up Here?
THE “2020” CAMPAIGN IN THE U.S. – TO HAVE 20% WOMAN BOARD MEMBERS BY 2020 – SEEMS LESS LIKE 20:20 VISION AND MORE LIKE A BAD CASE OF MYOPIA A just-out study from index provider MSCI shows that companies with “strong female leadership”, which they define as...Plains All American Pipeline Sues Delaware Over Abandoned Property Audit
Plains, a Delaware limited partnership, has filed a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief from the state-initiated unclaimed property audit.
Warning: State Abandoned Property “Auditors” Are Running Rampant And Creating Big Risks For Public Companies…
Your editor went to the annual meeting of the Midwest Securities Transfer Association a few months ago, where he was stunned to learn that third-party abandoned property “auditors” were suddenly propagating like flies on a big, fat, abandoned pie…
Shareholder Services Association to Ring Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange
The Board of the Shareholder Services Association (the “SSA”) will have the honor of ringing the iconic New York Stock Exchange closing bell at the end of trading on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, in celebration of the SSA’s 70th anniversary.
