Proposal Details

Users have asked us to provide the text of shareholder proposals. (Up until now we’ve just provided a brief description, e.g. “Separate Chairman and CEO”.) We’ve now started doing this (providing not just the proposal text but also management’s statement and the names of the filers), and you can see an example for Monday’s meeting at Whole Foods. Right now only admin users can add this detail but ultimately we’d like to open it up and “crowdsource” a bit. Let me know what you think.

ProxyDemocracy in Motley Fool (Again)

Selena Maranjian of the Motley Fool wrote another article about ProxyDemocracy, this time focusing on which funds are reining in executive compensation and highlighting a couple of funds based on PD data.

Eric Jackson advocates proxy access

Eric Jackson thinks proxy access will do much more than Sarbanes Oxley or other regulatory approaches to “fix corporate boards.”