At Tesla’s recent annual meeting, shareholders approved an unusual compensation proposal for CEO Elon Musk – if achieved, he could be the world’s first trillionaire. The vote passed by a comfortable ...

The end of June marks the end of another proxy year, and the past year certainly looks very different from previous ones, particularly when it comes to sustainability. Overall, the number of ESG ...

Proxy-voting certainly took the spotlight in 2025. We saw the SEC narrow the scope of permissible shareholder proposals toward the beginning of the year. And toward the end, a White House executive ...

The House Committee on Financial Services’ April 29 th hearing titled “Exposing the Proxy Advisory Cartel: How ISS & Glass Lewis Influence Markets” examined “the role and influence of proxy advisory ...

From 2020 to 2024, the number of shareholder proposals increased steadily, fueled by growing interest in the E and S issues of the ESG mix. Enhanced scrutiny on proxy advisory firms is in full swing.

BETHESDA, MD – Calvert, the nation’s largest family of socially responsible mutual funds, announced today that it has adopted revised Proxy Voting Guidelines that integrate corporate governance and ...

Major proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis announced that it will stop offering its standard benchmark proxy voting guidelines in 2027, and transition clients to differentiated client frameworks. Glass ...

The Director of the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Division of Investment Management (the “Director”) gave remarks this month regarding registered investment advisers (“RIAs”) and their proxy ...