Archive for the 'Shareholder proposals' Tag

We’re out of the thick of proxy season, but a few are still trickling in, and with them, occasionally, a shareholder proposal that catches out attention. We’re usually interested when an ordinarily low-profile group — nuns at McDonald’s, for example — makes a serious proposal that shakes a company up a little. This time, it’s [...]

It’s still high season for proxies, which means we’re spending a lot of time wading through pages filled with discussions about executive compensation, board members’ qualifications to serve, the justification for perquisites, and so forth. But yesterday, we came across another shareholder resolution that reminded us of the post from a few weeks ago (the [...]

There’s been a lot of talk in Washington and elsewhere lately about investor protections, although, understandably, it has mostly been secondary to proposals intended to safeguard the economy and the markets as a whole. Two of the investor-protection proposals most commonly raised would give ordinary shareholders more of a voice: proxy access measures that would [...]