Governance

Votes “for” directors are trending down. Due to ESG?

- The number of votes supporting directors being elected has ...

6 things to consider when deciding whether to keep supermajority voting

- Consider six factors when deciding whether its worth keeping ...

How psychology might explain what’s holding a board back

- Boards should learn about authority bias, groupthink, status quo ...

How investors changed their voting policies last proxy season

- A bunch of statistics about how voting policies have ...

Should insider trading policies bar “shadow trading”?

There's been a lot written this week about whether the ...

Stewardship web pages for the largest investors

Here is where the largest institutional investors post their policies, ...

16 failed say-on-pay votes this season – why they failed…

Here's a nice recap from "As You Sow" as to ...

How shareholder proposals fared so far this year

Sullivan & Cromwell has released Part 1 of its series ...

Bias in proxy voting? Solved with pass-through voting?

- Latest "As You Sow" report shows that large asset ...

Should employee-shareholders serve on the board?

Recently, Jim McRitchie has been submitting shareholder proposals in an ...