Shareholder engagement continues
IR Magazine: April 2, 2020 Despite the disruption to daily and economic life due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nuveen confirms there has yet to be a big impact on shareholder [...]
Equilar and Nasdaq’s Board Leadership Forum
C-Suite: An Equilar Publication, Issue 30 Summer 2019 "A key foundation for meaningful engagement is the proxy statement. It should be treated as a communications tool between issuers and shareholders." [...]
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, [...]
Review of 2015-2018 Proxy Voting Trends
Harvard Law School Forum, November 26, 2018 A study by The Conference Board and Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance conducted in collaboration with FactSet and ESG data mining [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Procter & Gamble vs. Nelson Peltz: A Battle for the Future of Big Brands
Wall Street Journal, 10/08/17 A shareholder vote being held will decide whether a progressive investor, Nelson Peltz, will be able to win a board seat to encourage activistism. After a [...]
It’s Proxy Drafting Season: Here are some tips
No matter where you are right now in your current proxy drafting process, take the time to review these important tips from last week’s Society for Corporate Governance Conference. There [...]
Bridging the Data Gap through Shareholder Engagement
Harvard Law School Forum, 01/20/17 Corporate governance has a wide scope but broadly it refers to the mechanisms, processes and relations by which companies are directed and controlled. Adopting both [...]
Equilar, Hogan Lovells and Labrador Webinar. Outlook 2017: Meaningful Disclosure for Productive Shareholder Engagement
Join us for the webinar! Outlook 2017: Meaningful Disclosure for Productive Shareholder Engagement January 19, 2017 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time Cost: Complimentary REGISTER HERE Based on the recent Equilar report, Executive Compensation & [...]