Posts Tagged ‘Proxy’

Trillium Files Resolutions on Sudan Genocide

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Trillium Asset Management Corporation Files Resolutions on the Sudan Genocide
In December 2007, Trillium Asset Management Corporation (”Trillium”), working in coalition with human rights organizations and other socially responsible investment firms, filed shareholder resolutions with major banks and financial firms with the goal of engaging Wall Street to push Sudan […]

Shareholders Protect Right to File Resolutions, Lose on Rights for Director Nominations

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Late last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) closed an opening that had given investors a little more power to nominate directors at publicly traded companies. At issue is whether investors can nominate directors to appear on the company’s proxy ballots mailed out to all shareholders. Shareholders have the […]

SEC Proposals Threaten Shareholders Rights To File Resolutions

Friday, December 7th, 2007

2007
By Shelley Alpern
The cicada is a locust-like insect that emerges from a long hibernation every umpteen years to create an incessant buzzing on some areas of the East Coast. Equally annoying in death as in life, when spent, cicadas drop from trees en masse, littering once-pleasant lawns and parks with piles of crunchy carcasses.Ten […]

URGENT ACTION ALERT! Shareholders’ Right to File Proxy Resolutions in Jeopardy

Friday, December 7th, 2007

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has floated for public comment two proposals with dire ramifications for socially concerned investors.
2007
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has floated for public comment two proposals with dire ramifications for socially concerned investors.
Our very right to file non-binding shareholder resolutions may be handed off to the discretion of individual […]


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