Let’s Be Clear
Investors are demanding readers. They are regularly connected to the Internet and expect to find the information they are seeking in just a few clicks. Once on the site, however, [...]
Keeping Pay Ratio Rational
Takeaways from San Diego The recent pay ratio & proxy disclosure conference in San Diego provided useful insights into how U.S. publicly-traded companies are handling disclosure of how their CEO’s [...]
Getting ready for the activist at your door
Chris Wightman, a partner and founder of CamberView Partners and formerly with Vanguard, recently shared his views with Labrador on investor-company relations, the effects of changes in ownership and shareholder [...]
New UK governance code: meaningful, transparent reporting
Glass Lewis, 07/16/2018 The new UK governance code, released July 16, is moving away from the tick-box approach to disclosure, setting new standards for regulators, such as the SEC, in [...]
Investor push for human capital reporting
Corporate Board Member, 07/13/2018 In a recent article by Dan Bigman, Editor and Chief Content Officer of Chief Executive Group, he outlines Ning Chiu's, Counsel, Davis, Polk & Wardell, "top [...]
Feeling the heat on climate change
Last month’s approvals of climate-change risk disclosure resolutions at Kinder Morgan and Anardarko Petroleum are the latest visible signals that shareholder interest in environmental issues remains high. Yet, beyond steadily [...]
Board Lessons: Succeeding With Investors in a Crisis
Bloomberg Law, 05/21/2018 Each year, a small number of companies confront crisis-level events that draw high-profile scrutiny from a range of stakeholders. A well-executed emergency response plan can help limit [...]
Will the call for mandatory audit firm rotation be renewed?
Cooley PubCo, 5/22/2018 Starting in 2018, new rules required disclosure of auditor tenure in audit reports. (See this PubCo post.) And, for some companies, those tenures can stretch over a century. [...]
What companies can learn from Amazon’s shareholder letter
IR Magazine, April 26, 2018 By any measure, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ 4,300-word annual letter to shareowners, which was released last week, is a long document. But Bezos only devotes [...]
These are the 10 tech companies with the most diverse boards
CNBC, April 26, 2018 In the struggle to achieve representative boards, some companies are pulling ahead. For years, the tech industry has grappled with issues surrounding diversity and inclusion. And while there are still [...]