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SEC should focus on access in “notice & access”
AFTER a long delay, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally proposed tweaks to its failed “notice and access” process for delivering shareholder meeting materials on the web.
The model, which essentially transfers the decision to receive materials electronically or in print from shareowners to companies, has resulted in a dramatic drop in the number [...]
SEC’s Aguilar: Fix e-Proxy or scrap it
SEEKING to improve board accountability to shareholders, one of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) leaders has called for the 18-month-old electronic proxy delivery rules to be improved or repealed.
Commissioner Luis Aguilar said at the SEC Speaks in 2009 event in Washington on Friday that the so-called e-Proxy rules, which enable companies to deliver [...]
SEC to rule soon on websites for Reg. FD
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to address within the next three months whether companies can meet their obligations under Regulation FD by posting information on their corporate websites and in RSS feeds, according SEC Chairman Chris Cox.
The issue is among three areas that the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial [...]
US firms love e-proxy savings, but at what cost?
DESPITE the risk that they might be reaping short-term gains while laying the foundation for long-term pain, 566 US companies used notice-only e-proxy mailings for their shareholder meetings by the end of April.
According to figures compiled by Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., companies have saved about $132 million through lower print and mailing costs.
Unfortunately, that has [...]
What is "fundamental" on an IR website?
I WAS having a conversation the other day with a client about recommendations we had made about her company’s website. She wanted to know if a certain recommendation was really “fundamental” to her company’s site.
That’s a really good question and one that every company needs to think about. What are the basic requirements for an [...]
Evelyn Davis complains about e-proxy
CORPORATE governance activist Evelyn Y. Davis, well-known for berating CEOs at annual meetings across the US, has complained about the SEC’s new default electronic delivery process for annual meeting materials.
On CNBC’s Power Lunch show, the 78-year-old Davis told host Bill Griffeth that the SEC’s process of requiring shareholders to request paper materials from companies that [...]
Web-based campaigns a wake-up call for corporations
THE web-based Save Disney campaign humbled an immovable board by turning the company’s annual meeting into a public referendum on the effectiveness of the board and CEO.
It did so in the space of three months and was spearheaded by two dissident directors — Roy Disney and Stanley Gold — who relied almost entirely on the [...]
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