Whole Foods Markets ($WFM) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 3/15/2013. ProxyDemocracy.org had collected the votes of five funds when I checked on 3/3/2012, more were added later. I voted with management 69% of the time. View Proxy Statement. (Note to IR departments everywhere, including WFM, can’t we make all proxies indexed […]
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Exxon Mobil: Voting Recommendations
James McRitchie, 05/17/2011 ,
AFSCME and RAM Trust urge shareowners to rein in CEO Pay, implement governance improvements at their May 25 meeting. AFSCME and RAM Trust recommend: Against ratifying executive pay (Item 3) For One Year frequency of the advisory vote on compensation (Item 4) Adopt a policy that the XOM Board Chair be an independent (more…)
Response to Bainbridge Critique of Lead Director Commentary
James McRitchie, 09/16/2010 ,
In his post, Separating the CEO and Chairman of the Board, Prof. Stephen Bainbridge of UCLA Law School takes issue with my post on this site of 9-14 (Lead Directors: 2nd Best or A Valuable Tool?) in which I advise readers to consider the discussion of lead directors contained in Joann Lublin’s WSJ article of […]