Meaningful Message: Inspiring trust through your CEO letter
The letter from the CEO or Chairman may be the most turned-to section in an annual report or proxy statement. Yet, many companies seem to be missing an opportunity to [...]
Be creative when grabbing investors’ attention
Companies seeking to increase their engagement with shareholders are turning to inventive ways of attracting their audience’s attention. To reverse a long-running trend of decreased voting participation by retail investors, [...]
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. [...]