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SEC raises difficulty for getting shareholder proposals on company proxy ballots
Shareholders can file proposals before a company’s annual meeting. If a company thinks a proposal is out of bounds or has ...
Powerful Shareholder-Advisory Firm Abandons Push to Diversify Corporate Boards
Institutional Shareholder Services' retreat on DEI follows decisions by BlackRock and Vanguard to de-emphasize the issue.
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SEC moves to keep ESG shareholder resolutions off proxy ballots
The agency is reverting to a Trump-era policy that allowed public companies to widely exclude environmentally and socially ...
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Back to the Future: SEC Staff Issues Sweeping New Guidance on Shareholder Proposals Mid-Season
On February 12, 2025, the Division of Corporation Finance (Staff) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published Staff Legal ...
SEC Throws Proxy Season Into Chaos With Policy Shift on ESG Bids
Investors are scrambling to ensure their environmental and social proposals still make it on corporate ballots this proxy ...
US companies get more latitude to bar shareholder resolutions from their ballots
The top U.S. securities regulator revised guidance on Wednesday to make it easier for companies to avoid bringing shareholder ...
Investment Executive1d
SEC makes it easier to ignore shareholder proposals
In its latest move to relax constraints on public companies, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is making it ...
Developing Relationships with Proxy Advisory Firms
Publicly traded companies should establish working relationships with proxy advisors, particularly ISS and Glass Lewis, because they often heavily influence the outcome of shareholder votes. This ...
Applied DNA Reminds Shareholders to Vote Ahead of Special Meeting on February 14
Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:APDN) (”Applied DNA” or the “Company”), a leader in PCR-based DNA technologies, today issued a reminder to its shareholders to vote ahead of a reconvening of a ...