Driving Retail and Employee Votes The 2015 National Conference in Chicago, 6/24-27, was my first time attending one of the Society’s events. Part 1 and Part 2. Yes, I’m posting notes late but hopefully they are still useful. Panelists: Lawrence Dennedy, Irving Gomez, Martin Koopman, Theresa Molly In 2001 Prudential switched from a mutual to a public company, so they […]
Prudential $PRU is winning widespread praise for adopting proxy access before even facing a proposal on that subject from shareholders. However, there is at least one provision that would be a deal breaker for me if I were negotiating with them on the topic. (more…)
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 […]