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Proxy advisors have 'undue influence': Jamie Dimon

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2024
... remove their voting recommendations from research reports they provide to J.P. Morgan Asset Management by the 2025 proxy season. "... these steps are designed to respond to a growing perception (and, I believe, reality) that the asset management industry ...

State Street on how it will vote

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... Australia, as in other markets, SSGA will expect 30% women directors for companies in major indices beginning in the 2023 proxy season.

BlackRock offers update on dumping coal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... put it 'on watch' and give the company 12 to 18 months to meet our expectations," BlackRock said. "During the 2020 proxy season, we took voting action against 53 companies for their failure to make sufficient progress regarding climate risk disclosure ...

SSGA to scrutinise ASX 100 directors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... Taraporevala has written to board members to outline the manager's new approach to proxy voting. "Beginning this proxy season, we will take appropriate voting action against board members at companies in the S&P 500, FTSE 350, ASX 100, TOPIX 100, DAX ...

SSGA strengthens gender equality actions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... added that it voted against 512 companies for failing to take action regarding board gender diversity in the 2017 proxy season. It also voted against 581 companies in the first half of this year through several country proxy voting seasons.

2017 AGMs less tumultuous: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... received a strike against pay resolutions in 2017 has dropped, as shareholders increasingly become more engaged during proxy season, ASIC says. The corporate regulator, which closely monitors the outcomes of annual general meetings (AGMs) taking place ...

Citigroup takes action on pay inequality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... Citi's example on gender pay or risk further laggard status on issues of concern to women," Lamb said. For the 2018 proxy season, Arjuna Capital has again filed shareholder proposals asking JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, American Express and ...

US instos get active on human rights

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... actively vote their proxies. However, social issue resolutions that have come to a vote during the 2008 and 2009 'proxy season' gained between 7 per cent and 15 per cent of votes for and against, and over a quarter received more than 20 per cent of support. ...
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