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Category: ESG

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Look, No Hands: The 2026 Proxy Season After the SEC’s No-Action Pullback

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When the 2026 proxy season opened, corporate secretaries braced for the usual scramble over which shareholder proposals had to appear on the ballot and which could be left off. What most of them no longer had was the referee they had leaned...

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Corporate Governance Rockets to Top of Shareholder Concerns

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX pulled off a record-setting IPO on June 11, but the debut had at least one pre-launch hiccup. The day before SpaceX went public, index provider MSCI assigned the much-discussed rocket maker a CCC rating—the lowest grade o...

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Can the SEC Close the Barn Door on Climate Rules?

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On May 29, the SEC formally proposed rescinding its climate-related disclosure rules—the “Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors” finalized back in March 2024. Those rules were among the Gensler-era SEC...

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Five Potential Impacts of Semiannual SEC Reporting

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If you don’t run a public company, the idea of shifting from quarterly to semiannual financial reporting may sound like a classic case of a solution in search of a problem. There was nothing obviously broken about the system that generated...

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SpaceX Goes Where No Issuer Has Gone Before

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Elon Musk has never had much patience for corporate governance conventions, and SpaceX’s anticipated IPO only underlines the point. According to a Reuters report, SpaceX’s bylaws would require shareholders to “irrevocably and unconditionall...

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