What The Pandemic Taught Us About Transparency In Corporate Disclosures
We can all agree that the past year and a half has been unique. As the Covid-19 pandemic forced businesses and schools to close, we all had to adjust [...]
Best of 2020
A recap of your favorite content from Labrador Each year, we conduct a benchmark study of the proxy statements filed by companies in the S&P 250, [...]
Webinar – Making transparency a success in troubled times
Listen on-demand The importance of corporate transparency and efforts to promote it have grown beyond mere tick-the-box exercises to become major initiatives incorporating investor relations (IR) teams, their [...]
September Key Figure
Did you know? Clarity creates preference. Based on our recent study on plain language, 64% of readers think that a plain language text is well written. Request a copy of [...]
Discretionary adjustments to executive compensation call for careful disclosure.
COVID-19 has had a significant impact on corporate performance, and a related impact on executive compensation. In many cases, long-term equity awards that were granted before March 2020 have lost [...]
August Key Figure
Did you know? Based on our recent study on plain language, 72% of readers describe a text written in plain language as clear. Request a copy of the study here
July Key Figure
Did you know? Based on our recent study on plain language, readers are almost 40% more likely to understand text written in plain language. Request a copy of the study [...]
Without plain language, you’re risking stakeholder trust.
Most of us know instinctively that using plain language is a good idea. “Please give me the most convoluted proxy statement possible,” said no investor, ever. But if you need [...]
Last minute proxy writing tips
Do you remember when preparing a proxy meant simply updating the numbers? Neither do we. Those days seem so long ago, chased away by increasingly vigilant regulators armed with new [...]