The number of shareholder proposals requesting the ability to call a special meeting appears to have almost doubled this proxy season, according to new data from shareholder services provider Georgeson. The spike in proposals related to special meetings reflects continued efforts by shareholders to make it easier to have more of a say on certain…
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…
The coronavirus pandemic has turned investor dialogue upside down ascompanies go dark on negotiations and investors reset priorities at the start of an unprecedented proxy season. Shareholders have filed a host of proposals for the 2020 proxy season, once again largely focusing on environmental and social issues. Indeed, issues such as climate change, gender pay…
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.
Investors appear to be narrowing their scope when it comes to shareholder resolutions involving the right to call special meetings, experts say. Fewer proposals have been introduced this year, but those that have gone to a vote have seen a higher rate of support, suggesting that investors are targeting companies where they think they may…
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…
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 analyzes the SEC’s responses to these requests from January 1, 2018 through June 15, 2018. Our CompanyIQ® analysis of the 222 no-action letters issued…
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 CompanyIQ® report analyzes shareholder proxy access proposals and the SEC’s no-action rulings from January 1, 2018 through June 15, 2018. 50% of company no-action requests…