Asset owners up focus on ESG amid pandemic
Many asset owners have upped their focus on ESG as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, but major differences exist between regions...
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Companies face proposals on employee representation
At least six US companies have received investor requests to put proposals to a vote at their AGMs on the topic of employee board...
Disney shareholders to vote on lobbying and employee representation
Shareholders of The Walt Disney Company will vote on proposals regarding two governance issues in the spotlight – lobbying...
Proxy campaign outlook: What’s in the activists’ playbook for 2021?
Jan 13, 2021
6 min read
Looking ahead at 2021, corporate management teams will be facing a very different operating environment from the one that...
Bank of America's year-round holistic shareholder engagement
At Bank of America, shareholder engagement is well established and supported across the executive and non-executive teams. For...
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The story behind HP’s award-winning AGM
HP’s 2020 virtual AGM was not its first rodeo – the company has been holding its annual shareholder meetings online since 2015...
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PepsiCo finds governance success through evolution
‘Leadership across the board’ is how one of the Corporate Secretary judges describes PepsiCo’s governance team, which has looked...
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Starting a new governance journey at Nuance
Wendy Cassity, executive vice president and chief legal officer at Nuance Communications, joined the company in late 2018 with a...
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Corporate access teams playing role in off-season engagement
As off-season shareholder engagement continues to rise, buy-side corporate access teams are stepping in to assist with the...
Comment: Take care when considering buybacks
Buybacks have undergone a meteoric rise since the turn of the 21st century, overtaking dividends as the preferred means to return...
