After extensive consultation with global investors, the ICGN releases two new best practice guidelines: ICGN Guidance on Political Lobbying and Donations and Model Contract Terms Between Asset Owners and Managers. Said Christianna Wood, Chairman of the ICGN Board of Governors: In the post-global financial crisis environment few topics have received as much attention as asset [...]
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Networking at ICGN 2010
ICGN conferences are a great place to network with others in the field of corporate governance from around the world. The 2010 conference in beautiful Toronto Canada was no exception. I’ve reported on day 1 and day 2 of the topical sessions. Now time to cut loose a little. The best example of that, within [...]
ICGN Day 2: CorpGov.net Coverage
ICGN 2010 Annual Conference, The Changing Global Balances: Toronto, Canada Publisher’s Disclaimer: Many of the speakers, especially those affiliated with governments, indicated their remarks represent their own personal views. Not being the best note-taker, what follows are my cryptic recollections and personal comments. I’d say they are for entertainment purposes only, but that would lead [...]
ICGN Day 1: CorpGov.net Coverage
ICGN 2010 Annual Conference, The Changing Global Balances: Toronto Publisher’s Disclaimer: Many of the speakers, especially those affiliated with governments, indicated their remarks represent their own personal views. Not being the best note-taker, what follows are my cryptic recollections and personal comments. I’d say they are for entertainment purposes only, but that would lead readers [...]
Reign of the Shareholder is Over?
I just returned from ICGN 2010 (and will post on that next week). Among the thousands of e-mails I received during my week of absence, one stands out (although I haven’t gone through them all). Brendan Sheehan, the usually thoughtful Executive Editor of the Corporate Secretary, posits the “Reign of the Shareholder is Over” because [...]
ICGN in Toronto
As Canada gears up for the G20 summit, Toronto also gets ready to host the world’s largest investors at the International Corporate Governance Network’s (ICGN) annual global summit. The conference runs June 7 – 9 in Toronto, Canada and will gather institutional investors representing almost US$10 trillion in assets under management. If you’d like to [...]
BRIC Project Anticipates ICGN's Theme
ICGN’s annual conference, this June held in Toronto, is on “The Changing Global Balances.” It just so happens that students at theRacetotheBottom.org are also exploring a good portion of this phenomena with a series “The BRIC Project,” which began on April 1, 2010. Dan O’Connell will write posts about corporate governance practices in Brazil. Rich Jasik [...]
ICGN – June in Toronto
The world’s foremost leaders in corporate governance will gather in Toronto from 7 – 9 June 2010 at the International Corporate Governance Network’s annual global summit to focus on the evolution within the global capital markets and its impacts on corporate governance. Full details of the program and side meetings can be found at www.icgn.org/conferences. [...]
News Archives: October 2007
Trust Declares Victory AVI BioPharma announced that it has entered into an agreement with the AVI Shareholder Advocacy Trust (the “Trust”) under which the company’s board of directors has appointed Dr. Gil Price and William Goolsbee as directors of the company. These new directors will fill the unexpired terms of Alan P. Timmins and Dr. James Hicks, who have [...]
September 2007
I understand the SEC had received 30,000 letters and emails on their proxy access proposals by the close of public comment on October 2. Short “no access” release S7-17-07 (comments). Among the most thoughtful were those by J. Robert Brown, Jr., TheRacetotheBottom.org. Long limited proxy access proposal, S7-16-07 Shareholder Proposals (comments). Robert Brown Jr. Also worthy of note were comments by CII and SIF. [...]
June 2007 Archives
Pfizer to Meet With Largest Shareholders Pfizer said its board will invite its largest institutional shareholders to a meeting this fall to review the drugmaker’s governance policies, including executive compensation. These representatives own in aggregate approximately 35 percent of Pfizer’s shares. “We believe this meeting with our shareholders on our governance and compensation policies will [...]
July 2003
SRI Tilted Indexes Gain 1% A simulation by Innovest for a major US pension fund found that a slight “tilt” toward certain SRI criteria resulted in gains averaging 1% for five of six portfolios, with the one fund only underperforming by 0.04%. The Innovest results directly contradicted the findings of a recently publicized study from [...]
March 2003
OMB Upholds Mutual Fund Vote Disclosure Rule The Office of Management and Budget approved the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule requiring mutual funds to publicly disclose proxy votes, handing a setback to the $6 trillion fund industry. Funds will have to start recording their proxy votes beginning July 1 and disclose their 12-month voting records [...]
February 2002
Employees, Our Most Important Resource Most companies say their employees are their most important resource. Yet, they pay their CEOs more that 500 times the average worker. Successful companies with employees stock ownership plans (ESOPs) far outnumber those whose ESOPs have failed, employee ownership advocates point out. According to data from the National Center for Employee [...]
Archives: August 2000
Minow Writes to SEC Nell Minow of the Corporate Library recently wrote to the SEC to express her concerns a growing number of no action letters that make no sense. Her main focus is on a challenge made by Comshare based on the worthiness of the proponent. Nell Minow on Comshare Shareholder Proposal. Shareholder Efforts Recognized [...]
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