Mike Tyrrell is Editor of SRI-Connect – an online research marketplace for professional institutional investors, analysts & companies interested in sustainable development. He is keen to open up the site to corporate governance analysts & corporate governance research. Mike kindly gave permission to reproduce the interview on CorpGov.net. (more…)
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Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR): How I Voted – Proxy Score 92
James McRitchie, 11/12/2013 ,
Broadridge Financial Solutions $BR is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 11/14/2013. ProxyDemocracy.org had collected the votes of one fund when I checked on 11/8/2013. I voted with management 92% of the time. View Proxy Statement. (more…)
John Chevedden: "Economy Class" Investor Activist
James McRitchie, 10/24/2013 ,
Vote Disclosure at CalPERS: Example For Other Pension and Mutual Funds
James McRitchie, 08/26/2013 ,
Last week I followed up on a proposal made in early 2010 as a result of a couple of resolutions I was able to get enacted through my union in 2009. Yes, these issues take time. You must be tenacious, even when dealing with a fund like CalPERS, where both board and staff want to […]
Norges Bank
James McRitchie, 08/19/2013 ,
Several nice articles appeared recently in the FT on Norges, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund with $760bn in assets. Sorry, I didn’t save the titles but links to three are here, here and here. Well worth reading at the source. With assets worth twice Norway’s annual non-oil economic output and after quadrupling in size in eight […]
Investor Forums
James McRitchie, 08/13/2013 ,
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 […]
Video Friday: Are You "Overboarded"?
James McRitchie, 08/02/2013 ,
TK Kerstetter, Chairman, NYSE Governance Services – Corporate Board Member interviews Scott Cutler, EVP, of NYSE Euronext. (more…)
Sharegate Launches New Era of Shareowner Communications
James McRitchie, 06/18/2013 ,
Sharegate Inc., a new company that offers the investment community a modern and powerful financial social network, announced its launch recently, opening enrollment in the network to the general public. Sharegate is an information exchange platform that connects individual and instititional investors, publicly traded companies and other special interest groups. This platform allows companies to […]
1,788 Upcoming Annual Meetings in May
James McRitchie, 05/03/2013 ,
Operating as CookESG Research, Jackie Cook specializes in securities-related corporate disclosure analysis, particularly with respect to environmental and governance issues. We’ve updated our handy list of upcoming annual general meetings thanks to CookESG Research. (more…)
Bank of America (BAC) Faces Proxy Access on May 8th
James McRitchie, 05/01/2013 ,
John Harrington, of Harrington Investments, will present his proposal on proxy access at the upcoming Bank of America (BAC) meeting on May 8th in Charlotte, North Carolina. It will be the first time language modified to provide a floor for retail nominators of at least 1/2% will be voted on. That modification was made in an attempt […]
Take Action: Last Day to Comment on NYSE Rules on Proxy Distribution Fees
James McRitchie, 03/15/2013 ,
The deadline for comments on this important NYSE rulemaking that must be approved by the SEC is today, March 15, 2013, so act now or forever regret not taking action. See the rulemaking and comments already posted to SEC site. I’m concerned that provisions meant to facilitate voting on broker platforms may lead us right back into what […]
Turkey's e-GEM Beats Broadridge at Shareowner Communication
James McRitchie, 11/08/2012 ,
Turkey became the first country to require issuers to offer electronic proxy voting with the 1 October inauguration of a voting platform from MKK called e-GEM. The system will stream annual general meetings (AGMs) real time and let shareowners communicate with each other, vote before the meeting, and even change their vote as an annual […]
Video Friday: Use of Social Media By Senior & Board Level Executives is Pitiful
James McRitchie, 11/02/2012 ,
Less than a third of companies today use social media to support their corporate strategy and risk management practices, according to new research conducted by Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance, the Center for Leadership Development and Research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and The Conference Board. What Do Corporate Directors and Senior Managers Know about […]
In Celebration of MoxyVote.com
James McRitchie, 07/12/2012 ,
As co-founder Mark Schlegel announced Tuesday, MoxyVote.com will be closing down its proxy voting platform at the end of the month. See also Ross Kerber’s report for Reuters at Shareholder website closing, cites complex voting rules, 7/11/2012 and Mark Latham’s Sad News: @MoxyVote Is Closing #Corpgov. On the surface, it seems like a real tragedy. I’m sure Mark, Doug […]
Social Media & Democratic Corporate Governance
James McRitchie, 03/01/2012 ,
The revolution is being tweeted. Social media have enabled political uprisings in the Middle East, the global Occupy movement and even a swift blowback against banking fees in the United States. A logical (more…)
Got a Match? Lighting a Fire Under Retail Investors
James McRitchie, 01/07/2012 ,
Jason Zweig quoted this 1949 Benjamin Graham statement in his recent WSJ piece Will New Tools Help Small Shareholders Topple Giants?, 1/7/2012): (more…)