Tag: shareholder engagement

NACD governance survey reports on top board priorities, time commitment and other matters

by Cydney Posner The National Association of Corporate Directors has made available the highlights of its 2015-2016 Public Company Governance Survey of over a thousand directors and executives.  

Some notes from the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee meeting

by Cydney Posner Today, at a meeting of the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee, the committee heard various updates regarding proxy season, shareholder rights  and related matters. Pat McGurn of ISS discussed the past proxy season, which he viewed as “one of the strangest” ever.  Why strange? Because of the impact […]

NACD releases “Critical Issues for Board Focus in 2015”

by Cydney Posner The National Association of Corporate Directors has just released “Critical Issues for Board Focus in 2015.”  The issues list was developed following the NACD’s dialogues with a number of major institutional investors and roundtable discussions among investors and committee chairs of Fortune 500 companies.  The publication presents […]

Efforts on the rise to enhance shareholder-director engagement

by Cydney Posner Earlier this year, two proposals were floated to enhance shareholder engagement with directors, one from a working group called the Shareholder-Director Exchange and the other from The Conference Board.  While it may now be almost de rigueur for management to engage with shareholders, engagement between shareholders and […]