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Category: Investor Relations

Roaring hippos and CEO pay

Issuers Put the $ in ESG

Roaring hippos and CEO pay

Public companies have been talking a big game on ESG for years. Now they’re putting their money where their mouth is. Well, some of them are. Of the 100 largest U.S.-based public companies, 36 are now using ESG-related metrics in their exec...

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A Fork on the Road around a hill

New Rules for Proxy Advisors Divide Issuers, Investors

A Fork on the Road around a hill

Is polarization coming to the financial markets? You might think so after hearing the divided reaction to the SEC’s new rules for proxy advisory firms, which passed at an open meeting of the commission last week. Proxy advisory firms, as ou...

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Apple products in the hardware aisle

Issuers Go DIY on Environmental Regulation

Apple products in the hardware aisle

In a movie from a more innocent age, Tom Cruise, playing sports agent Jerry Maguire, pleads with a self-absorbed client: “Help me help you.” In a nutshell, that summarizes the pitch just made by investors with nearly $1 trillion in assets t...

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Five Procedural Defenses Against Virtual Annual Shareholder Meeting Glitches

Little girl with pigtails in white lying on the floor

When virtual work meetings go wrong, the damage is usually limited. The parent of a rambunctious toddler might suffer some embarrassment, but that’s about it. But for the unprecedented number of public companies that adopted a virtual forma...

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Twitter's home-base office

Issuers Face Questions About WFH Policies

Twitter's home-base office

The global pandemic has required a huge swath of the population to “work from home” (or WFH, as the kids say). The question is whether like LOL before it, this three-letter abbreviation has simply captured the zeitgeist of the moment, or wh...

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