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By Dominic Jones on March 12, 2010
UNDER the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial notice-and-access (N&A) process for the delivery of annual meeting materials, companies can mail their shareholders a slip of paper containing a URL where recipients can access their proxy materials online. Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) is one company that is in the process of sending such a notice to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, e-proxy, Investor Relations, notice-and-access, proxy statements, proxy voting, SEC, usability
By Dominic Jones on October 16, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meetings, annual reports, corporate governance, e-proxy, notice-and-access, proxy statements, proxy voting, SEC
By Dominic Jones on March 25, 2009
INTEL Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) will become the first U.S. company to enable all of its shareholders to attend, ask questions and cast their votes live on the web at its next annual meeting. Although advance Internet voting and annual meeting webcasts have been common for several years, shareholders were not previously able to vote live [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meetings, Intel Corporation, Investor Relations, Peter Schuman, proxy voting, shareholder meetings
By Dominic Jones on February 20, 2009
EVER since the folks at Risk Metrics asked me several weeks ago to write something for directors about communicating with shareholders, I’ve been struggling to put down my thoughts in some sort of coherent form. The problem, you see, is that I don’t think there’s anything directors can do. Communication is not enough. PR and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate directors, Elisse Walter, Investor Relations, Main Street, proxy voting, SEC, shareholders, Umair Haque, Wall Street
By Dominic Jones on February 9, 2009
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Exchange Commission’s (SEC) leaders has called for the 18-month-old electronic proxy delivery rules to be improved or repealed.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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meetings, e-proxy, electronic delivery, Luis Aguilar, notice-and-access, proxy voting, SEC
By Dominic Jones on April 20, 2007
ACCORDING to Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the corporate governance ratings company, Black & Decker Corporation (NYSE: BDK) respects its shareholders more than 99% of big U.S. companies. But I think they’ve got it wrong. I am going to explain why in a roundabout way, so please bear with me. Below is ISS’s Corporate Governance Quotient [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meetings, engagement, proxy voting, shareholder meetings
By Dominic Jones on March 13, 2004
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meetings, proxy battles, proxy voting, retail shareholders, shareholder communications
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