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Premiere Global Services: How I Voted – Proxy Score 11
James McRitchie, 06/09/2012 ,
Premiere Global Services ($PGI) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 6/13/2012. Voting ends 6/12 on Moxy Vote’s proxy voting platform, which had 3 recommendations “from good causes” when I checked and voted on 6/6/2012. However, two were consolidations, so they (more…)
Proxy Access Win at Nabors (NBR)
James McRitchie, 06/06/2012 ,
As Joann Lublin reported in the WSJ, Nabors Owners Back Proxy Access Resolution. Shareowners finally won a proxy access proposal! As far as I’m concerned, the proposal is weak (3% stake held for 3 years) but it is a win none-the-less. (more…)
Biogen: How I Voted – Proxy Score 63
James McRitchie, 06/06/2012 ,
Biogen Idec (BIIB)($BIIB) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 6/8/2012. Voting ends on 6/7 at Moxy Vote’s proxy voting platform, which had 6 recommendations “from good causes,” including 2 consolidations, when I checked and voted on 6/5. ProxyDemocracy.org had 6 funds voting. I voted (more…)
Cognizant Technology Solutions: How I Voted – Proxy Score 57
James McRitchie, 06/04/2012 ,
Better late than never. Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) ($CTSH) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 6/5/2012. Voting already ended on Moxy Vote’s proxy voting platform, which had 5 recommendations “from good causes,” including 2 consolidations, when I checked and voted on (more…)
Netflix: How I Voted – Proxy Score 20%
James McRitchie, 05/29/2012 ,
Netflix (NFLX) ($NFLX) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 6/1/2012. Voting ends 5/31 on Moxy Vote’s proxy voting platform, which had 7 recommendations “from good causes,” including 3 consolidations, when I checked and voted on 5/24. ProxyDemocracy.org had 4 (more…)
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (VRX): How I Voted – Proxy Score 33 Revised 5/24/2012
James McRitchie, 05/24/2012 ,
Valeant (VRX) ($VRX) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 5/30/2012. Voting ends 5/29 on Moxy Vote’s proxy voting platform, which had 3 recommendations “from good causes” when I checked and voted on 5/23 but 2 were consolidations of the one. ProxyDemocracy.org had 0 funds voting. I voted with management 33% of the […]
Dreamworks Animation (DWA): How I Voted – Proxy Score 64
James McRitchie, 05/23/2012 ,
Dreamworks Animation (DWA) ($DWA) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 5/29/2012. Voting ends 5/28 on Moxy Vote’s proxy voting platform, which had 4 recommendations “from good causes,” including 2 consolidations, when I checked and voted on 5/22. ProxyDemocracy.org had 1 fund voting. I voted with management 64% of the time. (more…)
CEO Pay Continues to Surge: Take Action by Joining USPX
James McRitchie, 05/10/2012 ,
According to GMI, rising share prices helped drive a 15% pay hike for CEOs in 2011, with the average compensation package hitting $5.8M. That’s on top of a 28% pay rise in 2010. Inflation (more…)
HESS: How I Voted
James McRitchie, 04/30/2012 ,
Hess Corporation (HESS) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 5/2/2012. Voting ends 5/1 on Moxy Vote’s proxy voting platform, which listed five “good causes,” including two consolidations, when I checked and voted on 4/27. ProxyDemocracy.org had only one fund voting. (more…)
EMC: How I Voted
James McRitchie, 04/29/2012 ,
EMC Corporation (EMC) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 5/1/2012. Voting ends 4/30 on Moxy Vote’s proxy voting platform, which listed six “good causes,” including two consolidations, when I checked and voted on 4/27. ProxyDemocracy.org had three funds voting. (more…)
ROVI: How I Voted
James McRitchie, 04/28/2012 ,
Rovi Corporation (ROVI) is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 5/1/2012. Voting ends 4/30 on Moxy Vote’s proxy voting platform, which listed no recommendations from “good causes” when I checked and voted on 4/27. ProxyDemocracy.org had only three funds voting. (more…)
Advice from AFL-CIO & CorpGov.net on Exec Pay & the 99%
James McRitchie, 04/19/2012 ,
Richard L. Trumka, President, AFL-CIO announced an update to their PayWatch website—this year’s version is called CEO Pay and the 99%. Trumka says it’s your one-stop shop for the most recent information on out-of-control CEO pay and what you can do to stop it. (more…)
Upcoming Shareowner Meetings
James McRitchie, 03/27/2012 ,
Powered by Jackie Cook’s Fund Votes, a handy list of upcoming meetings. Research voting guidelines and meeting dates (more…)
No Innocent Shareowners #OWS: The Duty of Care
James McRitchie, 10/18/2011 ,
John Paulson, the hedge fund titan who made billions in the financial crisis by betting against the subprime mortgage market defends the 1%: “The top 1 percent of New Yorkers pay over 40 percent of all income taxes, providing huge benefits to everyone in our city and state.” “I don’t think we see ourselves as […]
Equilar Change-in-Control Study: Cash Multiples Decrease
James McRitchie, 09/27/2011 ,
Equilar examined change-in-control arrangements among Fortune 100 companies for fiscal years 2008 and 2010. Key Findings: Change-in-Control Cash Multiples Decrease for CEOs: The prevalence of 3x salary multipliers among Fortune 100 CEOs decreased from 65.9% in 2008 to 44.2% in 2010, while the prevalence of 2x salary multipliers rose from 18.2% to 34.9%. Similarly, the […]
L'Apel: Democratic Capitalism at Risk
James McRitchie, 09/20/2011 ,
Recently, ICGN held their annual conference in Paris. From the Twitter feed, it appears I missed a good one. (see ICGN Via Twitter) I’ve already mentioned Jon Lukomnik’s appeal to look again at the idea that shareowners’ interests and executives’ can be aligned through compensation strategies. I think one origin of our errors was revising the […]
CEOs Should Get Out Vote Among Employees Says Daly
James McRitchie, 04/04/2011 ,
In remarks before the National Press Club, the CEO of Broadridge, the nation’s largest shareholder communications company, called on all CEOs to encourage individual shareholders, including employee shareholders, to vote their proxies. In 2010, just one in 20 individual retail investors voiced their opinions about the companies they invested in by exercising their fundamental shareholder right. That […]
Hands-On Investing
James McRitchie, 02/16/2011 ,
From the title, I was hoping the New York Times was actually going to profile investors who give as much thought to ownership as they do to buying and selling. (Financial Advisers Want Hands-On Investors – NYTimes.com, 2/9/2011) United Capital Financial Partners to serve people who had $500,000 to $10 million, but to really concentrate […]
Don’t Toss that Proxy
James McRitchie, 01/11/2011 ,
During the next several months, most corporations will be sending out their proxies (ballots) and holding their annual meetings. Individual shareholders own about 30% of the stock in US markets but few bother to participate, even though we often feel corporate managers have too much power and too little accountability. When we fail to vote, […]
Archived News From December 2007
James McRitchie, 12/30/2007 ,