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2. For Diverse Corporate Board Members, Upward Mobility Stops With a Seat at the Table
  
  Explore Phys.Org Sep 11 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...mittee. We also examined shareholder voting, and we found that diverse directors receive significantly higher shareholder voting support than do their non-diverse counterparts, suggesting that shareholders view them as e...
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3. U.S. Markets Watchdog to Finalize Rules on Shareholder Voting Advice
  
  Explore One America News News Jul 22 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...tion of Manufacturers had lobbied hard to rein in proxy advisers, which they say have too much power over the shareholder voting process and make often make mistakes in their company reports. They also say proxy advisers...
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4. Carl Icahn Criticizes SEC Proxy Overhaul as 'Big Step Backward'
  
  Explore StamfordAdvocate.com Feb 10 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...r performance. In a Feb. 7 letter to the SEC, the 83-year-old activist investor called a proposed overhaul of shareholder voting rules "a big step backward" for corporate governance. The billionaire argued that the chang...
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5. US SEC Commissioner Defends Proposal on Shareholder Voting Rules
  
  Explore Channel NewsAsia Jan 31 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...pay. WASHINGTON: A top official at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday defended an agency shareholder voting proposal amid "misconception" received from the SEC's public consultation process over new ...
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6. Warren Buffett: The Deck Is Stacked Against Shareholders When It Comes to Executive Pay
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Nov 29 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  In recent months, I have written about a number of market phenomena that present investors with problems. One of these things concerns the use of stock-based options as a means of compensating executives. In one of his letters, Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio) criticized the practice, arguing they represent an unfair transfer of wealth from shareholders to managers...
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7. Dimon Scores Win Over ‘Lazy’ Investors on Corporate Voting Rules
  
  Explore Yahoo! News Nov 1 2019 BoardNews
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Wall Streets main regulator is pursuing a crackdown on shareholder campaigns that corporate chieftains say are a nuisance. Few top executives would cheer the move louder than Jamie Dimon. Dimon has been a frequent target of social activists who want companies to take an aggressive stand on issues such as climate change and human rights abuses...
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8. Here's Why WeWork Won't be in the S&P 500 After its IPO
  
  Explore fortune.com Aug 20 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...tock structure, the company cannot be included in the S&P 500. Also in 2017, FTSE Russell required that 5% of shareholder voting rights of a company must be in public hands for index inclusion, with a five-year grandfath...
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9. Carlyle To Let Shareholders Have More of a Say
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Aug 1 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...shareholders who aren’t insiders at the firm” and will satisfy FTSE Russell’s minimum requirements for public-shareholder voting rights. Dual Citizens Though power will remained pooled among its executives, who have 66% ...
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10. 2019 Proxy Season Review
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jul 26 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...en companies that received such proposals generally reached a compromise with the proponent in advance of the shareholder voting stage, over half of these proposals went to a vote this year (55.6% in 2019, compared to 22...
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11. What's ESG and Why Is It Suddenly So Popular?
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance May 1 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...able 1 in 4 dollars of the $46.6 trillion in total assets under management in the U.S. How has ESG influenced shareholder voting and advocacy? In 2018, about half of shareholder proposals to U.S. companies focused on env...
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12. Unicorns Aren't That Rare Anymore, and Shareholders are Demanding More Control
  
  Explore Stock Market Today Apr 8 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...by critics a toxic and untrustworthy steward of investor cash. What many of these examples have in common are shareholder voting structures that favor the decision-making of company founders. Multi-class voting structure...
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13. Lyft and Pinterest Won’t Be Giving Shareholders Much Say
  
  Explore The New York Times Mar 28 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  The initial public offerings of Lyft and Pinterest will give investors the chance to buy into young, fast-growing companies led by founders with ambitious visions. But to get a piece of that action, investors will have to give up something big: an equal say in how the companies are run...
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14. Rite Aid Shareholders Approve Reverse Stock Split
  
  Explore CNBC.com Mar 21 2019 BoardNews
  
  Rite Aid shareholders have approved the company's reverse stock split, the company announced Thursday, a move aimed at keeping the drugstore chain's shares trading on New York Stock Exchange...
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15. The Tycoons Ruled Over Israel. Then Came Billionaire Paul Singer
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Nov 13 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...h the concentration law, investors are bracing for opportunities. Entropy now employs a staff of 20 analyzing shareholder voting at the country’s largest traded firms, up from just three in 2010, Staal said. “There are g...
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16. Statement On Shareholder Voting, SEC Commissioner Robert J. Jackson Jr.
  
  Explore Mondo Visione Sep 14 2018 BoardNews
  
  The Commission has long recognized that proxy advisorsthe companies that ... Third, I am concerned that our efforts to fix corporate democracy will be .... the de facto standard setters for corporate governance policies in the U.S.;...
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