Boards & Shareholders

What’s the best way for compliance officers to communicate with directors? That question, like the strategies that answer it, are more important than ever before.

One lesson to come out of the Wells Fargo shareholder meeting: Directors and shareholders should fight to preserve their contentious relationship.

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, a luxury hospitality company, has appointed Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz, representing long-term shareholder Cascade Investment, to the company’s board of directors.

Despite controversy before and during its annual meeting, shareholders reelected all of Wells Fargo’s directors. But trouble still lies ahead for the post-scandal banking giant.

While the battle between regulation and deregulation rages on, shareholder protection may be a job best accomplished by boards.

Equal Pay Day highlights income inequality between men and women, and perhaps the answer to addressing unequal pay is through best corporate practice.

State Street Global Advisors is calling upon more than 3,500 companies it invests in “to take intentional steps to increase the number of women on their corporate boards.”

As the 2017 proxy season approaches, here are seven tips for how public companies can prepare for shareholder activism to regulatory change, to social media, and more.

The buzzword for companies adopting proxy access: “consensus.” Companies are increasingly adopting similar approaches, according to a new report by the Council of Institutional Investors. Joe Mont reports.