Evan Epstein’s Boardroom Governance podcast provides insights from leading corporate governance experts in a long-form conversation format. This week’s episode focuses on the proxy advisory landscape, and features an interview with Nichol Garzon-Mitchell, Senior Vice [...]
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is expected to continue for up to 18 months. With the extraordinary impact the pandemic is already having on companies and markets around the world today, Glass Lewis has been scenario [...]
On July 29, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) issued a report submitted by the Working Group it formed in November 2018 to review certain issues related to proxy advisors. The report [...]
Leading Global Shareholder Voting Research & Analysis Providers Commit to New Governance & Oversight Structure in Independently Reviewed Updated 2019 Principles The Independent Review Chair of the Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research & Analysis Group (the “BPPG”), Dr. [...]
In Korea, it is highly unlikely to see a board proposal rejected by shareholders, and this is especially true when it comes to electing and re-electing executives of Chaebols, or family-owned conglomerates. It is typical [...]
For institutional investors and companies, a perfect storm has been brewing for some time. It started with expanded proxy voting at company meetings and the growing influence and size of passive and index-based investors. This [...]
When the Financial Reporting Council (“FRC”) submitted a draft version of its new UK Corporate Governance Code for consultation in December 2017, they were so inundated with responses (275 individual responses and far in excess [...]
In mid-June, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held its 2018 Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable. Regulators, policy-makers, investors, market participants (and Glass Lewis) flew in from all over the region, and from [...]
Glass Lewis conducted a Proxy Talk to discuss climate change-related shareholder proposals up for vote during the 2018 proxy season with a panel of experts. Proxy season is back, and climate change is still at [...]
Nearly two years ago, the Danish Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs announced that it had tasked the Committee on Corporate Governance (“Committee”) with a review of the recommendations of the Danish Corporate Governance [...]