New Rules for Proxy Advisors Divide Issuers, Investors
Is polarization coming to the financial markets? You might think so after hearing the divided reaction to the SEC’s new rules for proxy advisory fir...
Shareholder Proposals: The New Battleground in Managing Cyber-Risk?
“Today, the importance of data management and technology to business is analogous to the importance of electricity and other forms of power in the p...
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...
Issuers Take Their Medicine on Cyber Risk Proposals
The Equifax data breach began almost nine months ago. The company announced the attack back in September 2017. In some sense, the hack that affected h...
The SEC’s 2017 Year in Review
It has been a busy year at the SEC, especially at the top, where three different people have chaired the agency. With 2017 coming to a close and curre...
Executive Pay Scrutiny Coming in 2018
Equifax executives may not be too eager to talk about compensation this holiday season. After the massive data breach that rocked the credit reporting...