ISS Issues 2011 Policy Updates – TheCorporateCounsel.net Blog, 11/22/2010. Broc Romanek provides highlights of ISS policy changes.
Dan Harris provides readers with his recent speech on Emerging Market/China Outsourcing Issues, China Law Blog, 11/21/2010. Also interesting, The China Rich….Are Not Like Us?, 11/19/2010.
The proposal to expand the executive branch’s role in oversight over financial institutions may represent the beginning of an incremental encroachment on SEC authority. Similarly, the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency could absorb a portion of the SEC’s traditional investor protection role. In the end, the SEC’s survival depends on whether its leadership takes effective action to restore its credibility andregain the public trust in the years to come.
On October 21, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced enforcement actions against Office Depot, Inc. and two executive officers for violating Regulation FD by selectively conveying to analysts and institutional investors that Office Depot would not meet analysts’ earnings estimates. (SEC Enforcement Action Under Regulation FD For Implicit Communications To Selected Analysts, Corporate Securities Law blog, 11/17/2010)
Across a matched group of more than 2,000 North American CEOs, annual pay climbed a slight 1.63 percent for the year. When increasing the pay scope to also include option profits and vested stock, compensation declined slightly, by 0.28 percent. Indeed, while we anticipated a second straight year of pay declines as of this spring, it’s evident that pay more or less stayed the same for the matched group as a whole.
(CEO Pay is Treading Water, The Corporate Library, 11/16/2010)
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