Elon Musk Ignites Two Feuds
Elon Musk started two feuds last week, with two big adversaries. And while we’d never count the Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) co-founder and CEO out of a fig...
Broker Rule Aims for Middle Ground, Hits No-Man’s Land
In January, we predicted that 2018 would be the year in which the SEC created a new standard of care for broker-dealers. The Commission just held a he...
Management Strikes Back on Shareholder Proposals
This proxy season, two narratives are taking shape around shareholder proposals – one of them favoring activist shareholders, the other favoring man...
Analysts Get Their Turn
Public companies have many different audiences to which they must answer. As this week’s Facebook hearings remind us, Congress is one of them. So to...
The Sound and Fury of CEO Pay Ratios
Many public companies are probably glad they aren’t Honeywell International right now. The New Jersey-based industrial technology manufacturer recen...
Shareholder Proposals on Gun Safety Could Hit a Bullseye
A priest, a nun, and a rabbi walk into a shareholder meeting. It sounds like the start of a joke, but this proxy season it’s very much a reality for...