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Securities Law Prof Blog
Cremers and Romano on Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure
Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation, by MARTIJN CREMERS, Yale School of Management, and ROBERTA ROMANO, Yale Law School; National Bureau…
Federal Securities Law Source
Shareholders’ Say on Pay
On April 20, members of the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that would provide shareholders of public companies with an advisory vote on executive compensation. H.R. 1257, the “Shareholder…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Charges Former Apple GC in BackDating Scandal
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed charges against two former senior executives of Apple, Inc. in a matter involving improper stock option backdating. The Commission accused former General Counsel…
Pension Risk Matters
House Approves Say on Pay – What About Pension Empowerment?
Hot off the press, the U.S. House of Representatives says okay to amending the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide stockholders more power in approving executive pay. Click here…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Birdthistle on Mutual Fund Industry
Compensating Power: An Analysis of Rents and Rewards in the Mutual Fund Industry, by WILLIAM A. BIRDTHISTLE, Chicago-Kent College of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Abstract: …
Securities Law Prof Blog
House Passes Bill on Exec Compensation
The House of Representatives voted Friday to give shareholders of public corporations a nonbinding vote on executive compensation packages. However, a similar bill has not yet been introduced in the…
Securities Law Prof Blog
AFL-CIO Leads Shareholder Campaign at Verizon
The AFL-CIO is campaigning against the re-election of the six Verizon directors who sit on the compensation committee, to protest what it says is the too-generous pay package of CEO…
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House Debates Executive Compensation Bill
Debate in the House on a Barney Frank-sponsored bill that would give shareholders a nonbinding vote on senior management's compensation as well as golden parachutes followed party lines and made…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Shareholders Vote on “Say on Pay”
"Say on pay" proposals (shareholders' advisory vote on executive compensation) received 37% of the shareholder vote at Morgan Stanley and 47% of the shareholder vote at Bank of New York. …
Securities Law Prof Blog
More Big-Bucks Executive Compensation Disclosed
A New York Times column reads the fine print of the executive compensation disclosure in some proxy statements and looks for the bottom line of the new SEC rules. Some…