Shareholders & activism archive

Companies in the US have increased face-to-face contact with investors by 26 percent in year-on-year numbers across 2017...

– The Guardian reported that US privacy, civil liberties and human rights organizations launched a campaign calling on technology...

The New York City comptroller is calling for a move toward what he calls ‘board accountability 2.0,’ having written to 250...

In the first few months of 2018, significant media attention has been focused on new pay-ratio disclosures and how the repeal of...

Nuance Communications shareholders have by a large majority backed a proposal seeking to grant them the power to call special...

– The Wall Street Journal reported that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)...

– Standard Chartered units were fined S$6.4 million ($4.9 million) after the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) accused them of...

– The Wall Street Journal reported that Dow Chemical head Andrew Liveris plans to step down next month, ending a nearly 14-year...

Governance and investor relations teams working on and around AGMs this proxy season should be paying particular attention to the...

– The New York Times reported that US regulators asked chip maker Qualcomm to delay an annual shareholder meeting to give them...