“Overboarding,” Lack of Board Diversity Emerge as Governance Battlegrounds
As one of the largest asset managers in the world, BlackRock has leveraged its position in recent years to encourage better corporate governance and a...
Coming to Terms With Marrying Sustainability and Executive Compensation
In 1970, influential economist Milton Friedman made a bold proclamation in an essay for The New York Times that changed the face of business ethics. F...
Is Third-Party Securities Regulation Having Its Day?
Last year, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink famously fired a warning shot at public company CEOs. In a 2018 letter, he declared that BlackRock—with $6 trill...
Pension Funds Assume Activist Role in Private Equity Investments
For more than a year now, we’ve been talking about a Wall Street phenomenon. Activist and institutional investors, we’ve noted, are increasingly s...
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...
BlackRock Pushes ESG & Board Issues in Proxy Guidelines
With more than $6 trillion in assets under management, BlackRock has one of the loudest voices on Wall Street. And lately, the heavyweight investment ...