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 pay compares to that of [...]
5 noteworthy trends from our annual proxy benchmark
For the second year in a row, our benchmark study of the proxy statements filed by Fortune’s 250 largest U.S. firms determined that companies are devoting an increasing amount of attention (and proxy real estate) [...]
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 activism. Since CamberView’s founding in [...]
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 hopes that companies will increase [...]
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 increasing support for environmental resolutions, [...]
Keep Climbing: Boardroom Summit speakers urge improvements
Increasing Board visits to company sites, considering new approaches to evaluating risk and improving transparency on compensation, governance and sustainability. These were among the many insights offered by speakers at last week’s Corporate Board Member's [...]
High-risk, high-profile issues approaching
As large, mainstream asset managers continue to take increasingly vocal positions on environmental and social issues, two high-profile topics appear likely to appear on more and more company boards’ agendas: sexual harassment and guns. Sexism [...]
Go beyond compliance: New topics to include in your proxy
Need to know what good corporate performance looks like in areas such as sustainability, shareholder engagement and transparency? Check out these comments about recipients of the recently announced Corporate Governance Awards: “…raised the bar for [...]
Investors show united front on diversity
As the 2018 proxy season approaches, it’s clear that board diversity will continue to be a priority issue for institutional investors and one that companies need to ensure they are addressing directly. Last year saw [...]
Bring life to your CD&A!
Is your Compensation Discussion and Analysis (“CD&A”) looking stale and repetitive? If your CD&A is one of those that appears disjointed or inconsistent after multiple years of ad hoc revisions, you probably need to take [...]