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Forum Report: Fair Investor Access
Conference Board Resources for "Corporate Governance"
Policies
For those of you concerned with "corporate governance" policies,
The Conference Board has formally initiated its "Task
Force on Corporate/Investor Engagement" to develop recommendations of
board responsibility for investor communications. The Task Force plan
includes opportunities for public review and comment on governance issues,
complementing the Shareholder Forum's focus on the functional processes of
corporate responses to investor information requirements.
The following
introduction to the Task Force lists the people who will be guiding the
project (including two members of the Forum's "Fair Investor Access"
Program Panel, Barbara
Blackford as its Reporter and Peggy Foran as a Member), and also provides
a very useful history of institutional investor evolution over the past
fifty years as a foundation for understanding the relationships of
fiduciaries:
The Task Force's first public review will be conducted by
its Advisory Board this Wednesday, February 27, from 1:30pm to 3:30pm ET,
to "examine the current corporate/investor engagement paradigm and ...seek to identify the positive elements as well as potential areas to be
addressed by the Task Force." Anyone wishing to participate, either in
person in New York or online, is invited to
register.
The Conference Board has also recently published two
reports of definitive research relevant to the issues being addressed by
the Task Force:
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February 24, 2013, Matteo Tonello
of The Conference Board posting in The Harvard Law School Forum on
Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation: "Proxy Voting Analytics
(2008-2012)"; previously referenced in
January 14, 2013 Forum Report: Reports of
Shareholder Voting Data and Trends
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February 20, 2013 Director
Compensation and Board Practices: 2013 Edition (see
The Conference Board's website summary of this annual survey of
public company board practices endorsed by the Harvard Law School Program
on Corporate Governance, the National Investor Relations Institute, the
Shareholder Forum, and the Stanford University Rock Center for Corporate
Governance, and jointly conducted by The Conference Board,
NASDAQ OMX, and NYSE Euronext)
Please let me know if you have any suggestions for Forum support of the
Conference Board's Task Force or other corporate governance projects.
GL – February 25, 2013
Gary
Lutin
Chairman, The Shareholder Forum
575
Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022
Tel:
212-605-0335
Email:
gl@shareholderforum.com
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