Board Evaluations in 2020 Require a New and 20:20 Vision
By Kristina Veaco Founder, Veaco Group Directors have become bored responding to lengthy questionnaires that cover the same ground year after year. Today’s investors want to know more about board evaluations than ever before. They want to see that the board has taken...Retail Engagement In An Evolving World
By John Dunn Head of Corporate Issuer Sales at Broadridge There is an opportunity for issuers to guide retail shareholders and become that trusted source. In recent years, the number of directors failing to receive majority support rose by 38%. Institutional owners...Engaging Employee-Investors
An interview with Ellen Philip of Ellen Philip Associates Carl: For many a year your principal concentration has been on shareholder voting as it applies to employee plans. And, as everyone knows, employee-shareholders have not been untouched by the general apathy...Stop Doing Annual Board Evaluations!
Start conducting board performance reviews that elicit helpful advice on how the board might work better. The Governance Solutions Group is a board advisory practice with a focus on engaging directors in the annual board assessment process and guiding strategic...Shareholder Records Retention: The Devil’s in the Details
By Merrill B. Stone & Stephanie W. Estey We all can be a little forgetful. For example, most of us who wear glasses seem to misplace them with an annoying degree of regularity. We tear up the house, going from room to room only to find them, quite literally, right...20 Developments To Watch – And To Act On – As You Prepare For 2020
A pressing need to “wake up, smell the coffee, do your math and count the house carefully” re: 2020 proxy issues. A new need to re-visit and re-articulate “the purpose of the corporation” in response to the recent Business Roundtable and Council of Institutional...Evelyn Y. Davis: Gadfly Extraordinaire and Self-Styled “Queen of the Corporate Jungle” Passes Away on November 30, 2018 at the Age of 88
One of the most complex, contentious, egotistical, infuriating and relentless people – and in many ways one of the saddest people on the corporate scene – due, perhaps, to her terrible experiences as a Holocaust survivor, which were rarely mentioned until late in her life…
Hot Topics, Trends, and Tips for Transforming Shareholder Relations in 2019
Some practical advice, cost savings tips, and details of the hot topics and trends in the field of proxy solicitation and governance advisory work: As a proxy firm, our business brings us in contact with the most influential institutional investors in the world and...
