March 27, 2012—Proxy season is a wonderful, if imperfect, window into how companies, managers and boards think, and into some of the context that shapes the decisions they make. Look no further than the proxies filed yesterday by NYSE Euronext (NYX) and Consol Energy ...

March 23, 2012—Footnoted's Red Flag Alerts, including this alert about Dominion Resources, Inc. are available exclusively to Footnoted *PRO subscribers. To subscribe, click here.

March 21, 2012—Update: The link we included yesterday to NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. turned out to be a link to a temporary host while the company was doing website maintenance. We have replaced the old link with the current, correct one ...

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January 12, 2012—Shareholder activism, at least when it comes to the kinds of proposals activist shareholders shoehorn onto company proxies, is generally seen as the province of unions, environmentalists, good-government groups and others seeking to rein in what they see as corporate excess, self-dealing ...

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July 18, 2011—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 ...

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