…y questions. Sincerely, James McRitchie, Shareholder Advocate/Publisher Corporate Governance (CorpGov.net) [1] https://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/precautionary_principle_decision_making_under_uncertainty_FB18_en.pdf [2…
…ies and would essentially impose an unwarranted tax on shareholder proponents. Sincerely, James McRitchie, Shareholder Advocate/Publisher Corporate Governance (CorpGov.net) Tweet Follow corpgovnet…
…ty and deserves further investigation by shareholder advocates. Maybe the best solution, if mutual funds find it too difficult to vote because of conflicts of interest, is for the funds to just pass through voting rights to beneficial owners. Computer…
…nd Professor Macey, and the rest of what shareholder advocate James McRitchie calls the “corporate governance industrial complex.” The deviants are the outsiders who rely on legal argument, logic and a failing thirty year case study to argue for great…
…ability to identify and communicate with shareholders. Shareholder resolutions will be overtaken by other forms of constructive engagement, and shareholder activism will become less confrontational, more responsible–and more effective. The definition…
…on funds) to fight for fair treatment of shareholders, shareholder approval of certain corporate decisions, and needed regulatory reforms. A 1991 study found that over 80% of corporate board candidates were filled by CEO recommendations. Until 1992, w…
…rporations have to listen to you. Fellow shareholder advocate Andrew Behar explains how to exercise your proxy voting rights to weigh in on corporate policies—you only need a single share of stock to do it. If you own $2,000 in stock in a company, Beh…
…be opening up the nomination process to shareholders. Shareholder participation and free discussion, such as what occurs on the eRaider bulletin boards, can add value to the firm. Directors faced with the real possibility of being replaced by shareho…
…be opening up the nomination process to shareholders. Shareholder participation and free discussion, such as what occurs on the eRaider bulletin boards, can add value to the firm. Directors faced with the real possibility of being replaced by shareho…
…further dependency on government. I am a shareholder advocate at many of the 100 companies where I own stock. As the publisher of Corporate Governance (CorpGov.net) for over twenty years, I have been an important contributor to the movement to facilit…
…jor city and on every university campus. Shareholder Communications Coalition The Business Roundtable has formed a Shareholder Communications Coalition calling on the SEC to initiate a comprehensive evaluation of the shareholder communications process…
…l solicit the opinions of pension funds, shareholder advocates, Corporate America, and the legal community. CEOs and entrenched managers who are accountable to no one are likely to mount a concerted lobbying campaign. They have consistently opposed in…
…he managing trustee for the Trust is The Shareholder Advocate, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company majority owned and operated by Richard Macary, and the Resident Trustee is Christiana Bank & Trust Company. The trust agreement gives the “Managin…
…l solicit the opinions of pension funds, shareholder advocates, Corporate America, and the legal community. CEOs and entrenched managers who are accountable to no one are likely to mount a concerted lobbying campaign. They have consistently opposed in…
…lie, cheat and steal in the name of the shareholders, she says. because maximizing shareholder value is the only principle corporations understand.” Kelly argues that corporate boards that represent only shareholders are like feudal societies that on…
…benefit of their short-term enrichment. Shareholders should continue to advocate more balanced compensation plans. According to United for a Fair Economy, after nearly two decades of real wage declines, workers’ pay rose 28% in the 1990s (before adju…
…an at Ombudsman@sec.gov and the Investor Advocate at InvestorAdvocate@sec.gov. Proxy Cards: Ombudsman Responds Thank you for contacting me with your questions relating to the Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation, Section 301, Question 301.1 update…
…to remove cumulative voting rights from shareholders and also to tighten shareholder notice requirements for shareholders to nominate director candidates. I urge readers to vote AGAINST these proposals. Disclosure: James McRitchie, the publisher of C…
…ul results have been from “inside,” as a shareholder advocate. While I am not sure more democratic corporate governance is labor’s ‘last’ or even its ‘best’ weapon, it is certainly an underutilized tool. Thomas Piketty found investment income accelera…
…e casino. The US hasn’t had an effective advocate for retail shareholders since United Shareholders Association. Deon Strickland , Kenneth Wiles and Marc Zenner documented that USA’s 53 negotiated agreements are associated with a mean abnormal return…
…McRitchie, Publisher of CorpGov.net and Shareholder Advocate. I’ve pasted TK’s intro and video from Inside America’s Boardrooms below, followed by some additional comments. I hope you enjoy the show. Over ten years ago, shareholder advocate Jim McRit…
…overnance proposal comes from well known shareholder advocate John Chevedden. Many boards and investors assume a false equivalency between rights of written consent and special meetings. However, any shareholder, regardless how many (or few) shares sh…
…from that side.) Dec 28 James McRitchie, Shareholder Advocate/Publisher, Corporate Governance (CorpGov.net) Dec 29 James McRitchie, Shareholder Advocate/Publisher, Corporate Governance (CorpGov.net) I did not really cull through File No: S7-22-19 but…
…rt is that the SEC does little to inform shareholders of their rights to file shareholder proposals or vote proxies. Most of Investor.gov is devoted to investors as consumers, not as owners. The focus is on protecting investors against fraud. There is…
…lek interviewed Eric Darrisaw, long-time shareholder advocate for racial equity in corporate America, about how activists can push companies to support black employees. Darrisaw’s life has an interesting trajectory from his interest in apartheid in So…
…rdic countries no CEO in castle as King. Shareholders nominate. #corpgov James McRitchie @corpgovnet 27 Jun #ICGN13 Lipton 1 shareholder can muster voting power of investors that control against company’s opinion #corpgov pic.twitter.com/oUjtmDLD10 J…
…to expand GM’s board to include consumer advocates and empower shareholders to place their board nominees on GM’s proxy ballot (proxy access). According to a recent article in the WSJ, the longtime consumer advocate is now putting together a sharehold…
…Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens. As a shareholder advocate, I will be negotiating at companies with dual-class share structures to sunset such provisions. Taking a page from Fisch and Solomon, I will also be looking at sunset mechanisms other than…
…has long inspired my own work as an ESG shareholder advocate. One example post is McRitchie 2019 Proxy Season Win for Market Beta. For a more conversational discussion on this topic, listen to PRI’s Head of Academic Research, Katherine Ng, speak with…
…oycotts. According to Lucia von Reusner, Shareholder Advocate for Green Century Capital Management; Companies that get involved in highly controversial public policy issues risk alienating their consumer base. Using shareholder funds to publicly oppos…