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Tag: Shareholder Proposals

Activist Investors Use SEC’s Shift to Press Companies on Climate and Social Agendas

When it comes to pushing for clean energy and environmentally responsible policymaking, publicly traded companies talk a big game. Their actions don’t match the rhetoric, though. That’s the takeaway offered by a report from sustainability a...

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2022 Proxy Season in Review: More Shareholder Proposals, Less Support

Legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden had a famous saying that summed up his approach to management: “Don’t mistake activity for achievement.” Doing something doesn’t necessarily mean anything was accomplished, in other words. Followi...

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SEC Overturns Curbs on Influence of Proxy Advisors

Proxy advisory firms weren’t particularly popular with the Securities and Exchange Commission during the previous presidential administration. Quite the opposite, in fact, as the SEC passed rules in 2020 designed to blunt the influence of f...

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Companies Respond to Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade Reversal

The last week has seen a wave of announcements from companies in response to the Supreme Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization quashing federal abortion rights. The speed of the announcements indicated many compani...

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Proxy Season Brings Socially Motivated Shareholder Proposals from Both Sides of the Aisle

It’s nothing new to see activists showing up at annual shareholder meetings to protest banks’ social agendas. In fact, they’re typically taking financial institutions to task for what they perceive as a lack of any agenda at all. Recently,...

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