This year investors are emphasizing climate risk as part of their push to get companies to address global warming, while treading more carefully around issues related to pay linked to sustainability goals, according to market watcher. …This year so far, investors have filed 19 climate change-related resolutions that mention climate risk at S&P 500 companies…
The climate-change related shareholder proposals popping up in 2022 proxies are far more prescriptive or “constraining” than the ones BlackRock supported last year, the asset manager said in a report earlier this month, noting they “may not promote long-term shareholder value.” Sources say that’s a key reason many climate proposals have struggled to get the…
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MyLogIQ’s 2018 Audit Fee Report finds that after a significant rise in public company audit fees in 2017, the growth in median fees paid fell in 2018. Using our CompanyIQ® platform, we reviewed the 2019 SEC filings (annual DEF 14A proxy statements) of some 6,100 public companies to identify their spending on auditors for the…
Public companies may ask the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for permission to omit shareholder proposals from their proxy votes through a no- action letter request under Rule 14a-8. This report, utilitzing the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR search tool, analyzes the SEC’s responses to these requests from January 1, 2019 through June 25, 2019.
With data from the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR database, Egan-Jones analyzed TWDC. On March 4, 2019, The Walt Disney Company (the “Company”) and Robert A. Iger entered into an amendment to Mr. Iger’s employment agreement with the Company (the “Amendment”). The Amendment reduces by $13,500,000 the annual total compensation opportunities that the Company would have made…
Forty-five days into the 2019 annual general meeting season, 42 S&P 500 companies have filed their annual proxies. With data from the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR database, this report makes some early observations about shareholder proposals that appear on those proxies and will be voted on at annual general meetings. 30% of S&P 500 companies face…
How does 2019 compare to 2018 for shareholder proposals? See what these 18 companies tell us based on S&P 500 proxy data from the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR database.
Introduction Public companies may ask the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for permission to omit shareholder proposals from their proxy votes through a no-action letter request under Rule 14a-8. Executive Summary In this CompanyIQ® report, you will find an analysis of SEC staff no-action letters from January 1, 2018 through June 15, 2018 in response…