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Proxy Access: Now We Are Three: First, we learned that Daniel Rudewicz, a USPX member, filed a proposal at KSW, a Long Island City, N.Y.-based company with a $19.7 million market capitalization that furnishes and installs heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems and process piping systems.  Rudewicz’s binding proposal...
Video Friday: Moyers: Bill Moyers is back on television! Here is a recent episode of “Moyers and Company,” which asks: “how did our political and financial class shift the benefits of the economy to the very top, while saddling us with greater debt and tearing new holes in the safety net?” Moyers investigates how the ...
Corporate Directors Forum 2012 – Part 4: Has the Power Needle Moved?: These are some relatively quick notes that I’m sharing from the Corporate Directors Forum 2012, held on the beautiful campus of the University of San Diego, January 22-24, 2012. This post may be a cryptic… not complete sentences bt hopefully mor intelligible thN txt msgN. The program was subject ...
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How Shareholders Can Make a Difference: “Shareholders are fed up about corporate excesses,” Laura Berry writes in a guest column for the Des Moines (Iowa) Register. “But they aren’t waiting for Congress to make changes.” At the annual meetings of Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group...
Shareholder Proposals at ExxonMobil: Shareholders of ExxonMobil Corp. will vote on eight resolutions concerning  the environment, human rights and diversity. The Sustainable Investments Institute (SI2), which researches organized efforts to influence corporate behavior on social and environmental issues, has published...
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Johnson & Johnson teams up with Moxy Vote: We recently announced our first 100,000 users, and now there’s more big news: Johnson & Johnson intends to use Moxy Vote to communicate with their retail shareholders. This should be no surprise to those who follow J&J’s investor relations practices — they are at the cutting edge of share...
Pop quiz: Socially Responsible Investing: This week’s newsletter focuses on socially responsible investing, or SRI. Have you ever heard of if? View This Poll
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Model Proxy Access Proposal Template and Discussion Points Now Available: On November 10, 2010, the United States Proxy Exchange (USPX) released a Model Proxy Access Proposal that can be presented to corporations for a shareowner vote under SEC Rule 14a-8 to ensure that long-term shareowners have a reasonable, but not necessarily easy, means for including board nomina...
Occupy Wall Street-together.: Shareowners of the World: Unite!   Take a moment to read my comments at the end of the blog---I mention this ShareOwners.org as one organizing tool.  Jeffrey McCord is spot on in his comments about the role of governance.  
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Insider Trading, Congress and the Regulation of Executive Compensation: We were just writing about how preemption has caused a dramatic shift in the regulation of executive compensation, removing the matter from states and giving it to the federal government.  One consequence is that matters are resolved in a more political climate. In that regard, it as interesting ...
Delaware, Executive Compensation, and Additional Federal Preemption: A Strategy for Prevening An Inevitability: Federal preemption of Delaware law has become almost ordinary.  Nowhere has preemption been more apparent than with respect to executive compensation.  SOX took some tepid steps, particularly with respect to clawbacks of compensation.  Dodd-Frank roared forward, giving the SEC the authority to re...
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The Friday Podcast: Is Hosting The Super Bowl Worth It?: Listen to the Story Add to ...
Who Killed Lard?: by Robert Smith ...
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A Super Bowl for more than players & advertisers…: Game day is almost here, and thanks to the Super Bowl advertising sweepstakes, the event is probably as big a deal for corporate America as it is for sports fans. But a stroll through companies’ public disclosures shows that the Super Bowl looms large fo...
A Choice Hotels check-out gets a little simpler…: Fifteen months ago, we took Choice Hotels (CHH) to task for tearing up a departing executive’s carefully crafted severance terms in favor of an ad-hoc arrangement that the company admitted it wasn’t actually obliged to pay. As it turned out, that executi...
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It’s Working!!!: Eleven weeks ago, we launched the new USPX social networking website. The goal was to create an on-line community for our members to self-organize around issues. Guess what? It is working!!! Already, members Jim McRitchie, Steven Town and myself have transfered exiting blogs to the USPX websit...
Reflections on 2011: The United States Proxy Exchange (USPX) is a experiment premised on the notion that a grass roots movement—by individual shareowners, for individual shareowners and funded entirely by dues of individual shaeowners—can improve corporate governance and address financial abuse. It is too early to...
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[VIDEO] Oil Will "Fill the Gap" :   ...
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Important New SEC Ruling Offers Diversified Shareholder Responses To Corporate Election Spending: Sanford Lewis,  AttorneyShareholders have won the right to seek an annual proxy review and vote on a company's  political spending, as a result of a new SEC decision. The SEC Staff, for the first time, allowed a shareholder resolution seeking shareholders' say on political spending (in a deci...
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