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The Shareholder Activist: TheShareholderActivist.com™ is a new source for information and advice to facilitate responsible shareholder activism. The site includes tools, tactics, and techniques to help retail investors fully exercise their rights in publicly traded companies. Don’t just dispute, contribute. Effective shar...
Virtual Lockout at Corporate Meetings: Occupy Some Other Space: Glyn Holton, the executive director of USPX, once again expresses his concerns over efforts by Broadridge Financial Solutions to make virtual meetings palatable to shareowners. I urge you to read his post, Locking Out Shareowners (For a Fee). There are two ways to conduct a virtual annual meeting...
No. CA NACD: “For-Benefit Enterprise” Law Explained: Newly appointed Commissioner of California Corporations, Jan Owen, discusses the new “For Benefit” laws and provides a status update of other pertinent issues affecting public and private corporations. Sponsored by the Northern California chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors...
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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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SEC v. Gupta: SEC Charges Director, Hedge Fund Manager in Insider Trading Scheme: On October 26, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) brought suit in Federal District Court against Rajat K. Gupta and Raj Rajaratnam, charging the two men with insider trading under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”) and Section 17(a) of the Secu...
Brummer on International Financial Regulation: I spent last Friday at Georgetown at a scholarly roundtable and book launch party celebrating the release of Soft Law and the Global Financial System by Chris Brummer.  I've followed Chris's work for a number of years because of our shared interested in transnational financial regulation, and I w...
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The Tuesday Podcast: Can We Create Banks We Love?: Listen to the Podcast [16 min 21 sec...
The Case For Economic Optimism, From A Leading Pessimist: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images The economists who predicted the housing crisis tend to b...
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Down $100 million, but not entirely out at Nabors…: Eugene M. Isenberg is getting a lot of attention — and deservedly so — for giving up the $100 million that his employer, Nabors Industries (NBR), owed him for naming another man chief executive of the company Isenberg had run for a quarter-century. That ...
Has HP learned a lesson about time and money?…: After Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) filed its proxy on Friday, news organizations from coast to coast published articles about the compensation that CEO Meg Whitman and the other top executives received last year (see here and here). Each exec got a total compen...
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Locking Out Shareowners (For a Fee): It is the most sinister development in finance since robo-signing of foreclosure documents: corporations locking shareowners out of their own annual meetings. The pretext is internet technology that supposedly allows shareowners to participate “virtually” instead. But the technology breaks dow...
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...
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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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