Inside Investor Relations (IR) had an important article on July 30th, On the Way to the Investor Forum that raised the question: do companies really want to encourage their shareholders to chat about them in online forums? Wouldn’t it create a lot of work for investor relations officers (IROs) “who are responsible for monitoring these online […]
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Wayback Machine: December 2007, 2002 & 1997
James McRitchie, 12/31/2012 ,
Time to step into the way back machine to see what we were writing about 5, 10 and 15 years ago. Five years ago in 2007 major charitable foundations, with the notable exception of the Gates Foundation, are initiating or strengthening efforts to harmonize the social and environmental effect of their endowment investments with their philanthropic goals, according […]
Proxy Access
James McRitchie, 08/20/2009 ,
Les Greenberg and I petitioned the SEC for proxy access back in 2002, so we both have a longstanding interest in seeing a proposal move forward. The Council of Institutional Investors said our proposal “re-energized” the “debate over shareholder access to management proxy cards to nominate directors.” (See Equal Access – What Is It?) Of […]
Archived News From December 2007
James McRitchie, 12/30/2007 ,