McKinsey Global Institute director Jonathan Woetzel and MGI senior fellow Anu Madgavkar discuss the economic and ethical reasons why gender equality is a worthy goal. A McKinsey & Company article.
Glass Lewis is pleased to announce the release of 2016 proxy season guidelines for the United States and Canada, as well as for our approach to evaluating shareholder initiatives. See more ›
Activist investor Carl Icahn has built up a 7.1% stake in Xerox, which has already been taking steps to cut costs and improve margins, that make him the company’s second-biggest shareholder.
[November 20, 2015], ISS announced its final U.S. voting policies for the 2016 proxy season. ISS had previously released draft proposals on several of the topics in October. Changes to non-U.S. policies were also announced, including with respect to Brazil, Canada, France, Hong Kong & Singapore, India, Japan, the Middle East & Africa and the U.K. & Ireland. ISS also released an updated equity plan scorecard “FAQ,” which contains a new model index for large companies that are newly public or emerging from bankruptcy, as well as other minor adjustments to scorecard factors.
Serving on boards of directors can be both challenging and rewarding. But how do women go about being asked to join them? The experts who spoke at the latest event in the Women Who Inspire Speaker …
This part of the report evaluates the opportunities expected in the year to come, as well as the change in which activists are engaging with companies.
Most activist investors see opportunities for their brand of investment at small to mid-cap companies, particularly in the energy and industrials sectors, while activism at large and mega-cap companies presents fewer possibilities, according to a study by Activist Insight and FTI Consulting.
ROCKVILLE, MD. (November 23, 2015) – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today launched a new release of QuickScore, ISS’ state-of-the-art global corporate governance scoring solution for institutional investors.
Today [November 18, 2015], the Commission meets to consider a proposal to increase the transparency of alternative trading systems (ATS). Many ATSs are commonly referred to as “dark pools”. To most people, dark pools are a little bit of a mystery, and that’s because they often function in great secrecy. Today’s proposal seeks to shine a light into that darkness.
Solomon-like, the Delaware legislature in 2015 split the baby by amending the Delaware General Corporation Law to authorize forum-selection bylaws and to prohibit charter or bylaw provisions that would shift to the plaintiff defense costs incurred in connection with shareholder suits that were not successfully concluded.
Washington D.C., Nov. 24, 2015 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that a political intelligence firm agreed to admit wrongdoing and pay a $375,000 penalty for compliance failures.
The agreement would be the latest, and largest, aimed at helping an American company lower its taxes by reincorporating overseas, a tactic known as corporate inversion.
Trian Fund Management LP, the activist hedge fund run by billionaire investor Nelson Peltz, is ending quarterly redemptions by its new investors, according to people familiar with the matter, in order to lock in money for longer periods.
Wall Street traders are circling a corner of the bond world they say is taking an unwarranted beating in anticipation of rising interest rates-closed-end funds.
Jonathan Ho, Partner of KPMG explains to Mark Laudi, the need for small companies to take care of their corporate governance just like bigger enterprises do....
Carl Icahn he intends to take his fight to break up American International Group Inc. directly to shareholders, a move that could ramp up the pressure on the insurance giant with a vote over its strategy.
The propensity to favor local investments is not restricted to individual investors alone but is also common among institutional investors. It also exists in common equity and private equity portfo...
The Women’s Forum of New York remains the critical, groundbreaking organization for successful women that it was when it held its first meeting in 1974. That was, by coincidence, the year I graduated from Columbia Law School. As one benchmark of progress, that year’s graduating class was only 17 percent women. Today that number is 45 percent and, in some years, it is higher.
[November 20, 2015], ISS announced its final U.S. voting policies for the 2016 proxy season. ISS had previously released draft proposals on several of the topics in October. Changes to non-U.S. policies were also announced, including with respect to Brazil, Canada, France, Hong Kong & Singapore, India, Japan, the Middle East & Africa and the U.K. & Ireland. ISS also released an updated equity plan scorecard “FAQ,” which contains a new model index for large companies that are newly public or emerging from bankruptcy, as well as other minor adjustments to scorecard factors.
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