Apr 25, 2022 | 2022, 2022 Q1, Annual Meetings, Featured, Issues, Virtual Meetings
We have been reporting on comments from ISS - and from several large investors as well - that they would be monitoring Virtual Shareholder Meetings to assure that shareholders will have a meaningful chance to ask questions - and to “engage in a dialogue with...
Apr 25, 2022 | 2022, 2022 Q1, Featured, Issues, Proxy
Ever hear this old expression, to indicate a totally unlikely event? Well damned, if pigs aren’t indeed flying high - on the proxy voting front! More kudos to Liz Dunshee for reporting that activist investor Carl Icahn’s fight for the rights of pregnant pigs not to be...
Apr 25, 2022 | 2022, 2022 Q1, Annual Meetings, Featured, Issues, Virtual Meetings
As Liz Dunshee reported in her March 13 blog, “This voting outcome arrives at the same time that the UN Environment Assembly has agreed to negotiate a legally binding treaty to tackle plastics, which many are calling the next ‘Paris Accord.’ That comparison is...
Apr 25, 2022 | 2022, 2022 Q1, Annual Meetings, Featured, Issues, Virtual Meetings
Not by our reckoning: After reading the ISS assessment in their quarterly update, we went straight to the books - and to our own records of 2022 Shareholder Meetings scheduled as of April 1, 2022. That day, we had 480 meetings booked where our team of Inspectors were...
Apr 5, 2022 | 2022, 2022 Q1, Annual Meetings
First and most important, it should be a fully-written-out and carefully annotated script - ideally color-coded - with large, easy-to-read type and clearly written cues for all participants - with color-coded speakers’ and technicians’ names - and with easily accessed...
Apr 5, 2022 | 2022, 2022 Q1, Annual Meetings, Issues
Now that you’re done with the preliminary homework of scoping, mapping and analyzing your shareholder demographics, the next step is to review your meeting options with regard to “location” - and to decide on a venue, an agenda, and the technological tools - including...
