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 [...]
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 [...]
Less than a week after the FTSE Russell index announced plans to exclude Snap Inc. and other companies that offer virtually non-existent voting rights to public shareholders, the S&P Dow Jones went a step (or several) further with a ban on multi-class share structures for new entrants to several of its flagship indices, including the S&P 500. The [...]
Glass Lewis conducted a Proxy Talk to discuss climate change-related shareholder proposals up for vote during the 2017 proxy season with a panel of experts. For institutional investors and mainstream retail shareholders alike, climate change [...]
From Bloomberg TV: Anne Simpson, senior portfolio manager at the California Public Employees' Retirement System, and Robert McCormick, chief policy officer at Glass Lewis & Co., talk about Glass Lewis's call for JPMorgan Chase & [...]