Sharegate Launches in Beta: Social Media to Facilitate Shareowner Action
What is Sharegate? On its most basic level, www.sharegate.com is a social network for all players in the corporate structure, including shareholders, corporations and their investor relations...
View ArticleBoard Service: A Great Gig… Especially @ Apple
Looking for work-life balance? Work from home (at least part of the time). Set your own pay — $1,000 per hour and up. No threat of layoffs or workforce cutbacks. Part-time hours and multiple positions...
View ArticleVideo Friday: Shareholder Empowerment vs. Board Authority
Delaware Chief Justice Myron T. Steele sponsored by The Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance on Nov 15, 2011. Steele has published over 300 opinions resolving disputes among...
View ArticleBiggest Losers: Will ShareOwners Dump Lapdogs?
CBS News identifies the 10 biggest market losers of 2011. HP and BofA are both targets of proxy access proposals. Unfortunately, only about 5% of retail shareowners bother to vote and many mutual funds...
View ArticleLong-termism Increases but Still Falls Short
The average time in which Americans hold a stock has gone up.It was 20 seconds last year. Now it is 22 seconds. Michael Hudson, a former Wall Street economist at Chase Manhattan Bank who also helped...
View ArticleThe Shareholder Activist
TheShareholderActivist.com™ is a new source for information and advice to facilitate responsible shareholder activism. The site includes tools, tactics, and techniques to help retail investors fully...
View ArticleGoliath Beats David; Shareowners Lose
I get frequent alerts for news on shareowner activism from various sources. I’ve seen this press release sent out by Susman Godfrey L.L.P. concerning their win against a small shareowner pop up so many...
View ArticleUSPX Suspends Central Activities
As many readers may know, a few months ago I joined the board of the United States Proxy Exchange (USPX). I’ve long been impressed with the work of USPX’s volunteer executive director, Glyn Holton. We...
View ArticleExpect a More Active Proxy Season
The 2012 edition of Shareholder Activism Insight sees increasing opposition from shareowners during the next proxy season, according to 78% of respondents. Fully 84% predict an increase in the number...
View ArticleTurkey's e-GEM Beats Broadridge at Shareowner Communication
Turkey became the first country to require issuers to offer electronic proxy voting with the 1 October inauguration of a voting platform from MKK called e-GEM. The system will stream annual general...
View ArticleBest Practices in Proxy Disclosure
Since 2004, the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) has prepared best practices documents for reporting issuers to provide guidance on effective disclosure communication related to corporate...
View ArticleVideo Friday: Shareholder Wealth – From Predictable Returns to Casino
Reuters’ blogger Felix Salmon shares a surprising list of which companies over the last 90 years have generated the most wealth for shareholders, and which ones have destroyed it. Will we get to a...
View ArticleCall for Papers – Journal of Corporate Finance
Since the Cadbury Report was published in 1992 in the UK, there has been increasing emphasis not just by UK regulators but also by regulators from other countries, including the USA and Continental...
View ArticleCorporate Directors Forum 2013: Bonus Session
Below are some relatively quick notes I took at the Corporate Directors Forum 2013, Bonus Session, held on the beautiful campus of the University of San Diego, January 27, 2013. For a list of...
View ArticleCorporate Directors Forum 2013 – Day 1, Part 1
Below are some relatively quick notes I took at the Corporate Directors Forum 2013, held on the beautiful campus of the University of San Diego, January 27-29, 2013. See materials. The program was...
View ArticleCorporate Directors Forum: Day 1, Part 2
Below are some relatively quick notes I took at the Corporate Directors Forum 2013, held on the beautiful campus of the University of San Diego, January 27-29, 2013. See materials, Corporate Directors...
View ArticleCorporate Directors Forum – Day 2
This is the last in my series on the Corporate Directors Forum 2013. See materials, slideshow, Corporate Directors Forum 2013: Bonus Session, and Corporate Directors Forum 2013 – Day 1, Part 1, and...
View ArticleCalSTRS Furthers ShareOwner Revolution With Announcement of Disney Vote
CalSTRS announced its vote at the March 6, 2013, Walt Disney Company annual shareholder meeting. CalSTRS voted against several directors and management proposals, and voted for shareholder proposals to...
View ArticleVideo Friday: David Langstaff on Tomorrow's Corporation
Tomorrow’s Corporation that We Need Today: Getting there from here. David Langstaff, president and CEO of TASC Inc., discusses why understanding the purpose of the corporation is so important and...
View ArticleReview Essay: Citizens DisUnited
Citizens DisUnited: Passive Investors, Drone CEOs, and the Corporate Capture of the American Dream both delights and informs as only Robert A.G. Monks can. No one else writes so well about topics like...
View ArticleDissident Directors and Proxy Access: Best Defense May Be the Same
I have a ‘no-action’ request by Apple on my desk. They are fighting my attempt to include consideration of a proxy access proposal at their next annual meeting. Like most no-action requests to the SEC,...
View ArticleUsing Sharegate: The Next Great Shareholder Communications Platform
One way to use Sharegate is to announce your proxy votes. Far too many retail shareowners just trash their proxies instead of using them. A common misconception is that shareowners should take the Wall...
View ArticleQuick Bites on CorpGov
Don’t miss the following great reads: Eleanor Bloxham, CEO of The Value Alliance Activist shareholders’ top priorities for 2014. A must read for directors and shareowners alike. Here’s the first...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Disruptive Forces on Shareholders and/or Boards
BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) have issued a call for papers that address global governance challenges. Academics and governance practitioners are...
View ArticleVideo Friday: Things Will Go Better at Coke With an Independent Chair
CorpGov.net publisher, James McRitchie presents proposal #5 for the 2014 annual meeting of shareowners, which requests the Board of The Coca-Cola Company move prospectively to an independent board...
View ArticleLetter to P&I Re Fiduciary Duty Editorial
Below is an email I sent to Pensions & Investments (P&I) editorial chief Barry Burr praising their editorial enhancing fiduciary duty and opining on how it may speed the arrival of the time...
View ArticleDeal Professor Equates Filing Proxy Proposals with Terrorism
Most people don’t like their behavior criticized. CEOs and boards almost always fight my proxy proposals aimed at improving corporate governance. I wasn’t happy with the Deal Professor’s criticisms of...
View ArticleCII Requests Change to Whole Foods Proposal
The Counsel of Institutional Investors (CII) took a very strong stand yesterday, asking Whole Foods Market to amend its proxy access proposal to conform with the “3 percent for three years” standard...
View ArticleMajority Voting 2021: Corporate Petitions
Majority Voting 2021. Proxy proposals provide powerful tools to hold corporations accountable. YourStake.org is an online petition platform for financial advisors. The combined savings of many citizens...
View ArticleReform No-Action Process
Reform No-Action Process Reform no-action process. That was the call of a recent letter by the Shareholder Rights Group to John Coates in his new role as Acting Director of the SEC’s Division of...
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