Proxy Season

A lot of people are talking about the results recently posted by Vanguard from the first year of its pass-through voting pilot program. Many understandably want to read the tea leaves as indicating that “investor choice” voting on a widespread scale could alter the dynamics of the proxy season. Did the results surprise me? Overall, I don’t think so. I’m not convinced that they look …

Here are 10 bullets you can tell your senior management team and board based on lessons learned about shareholder proposals from this proxy season (hat tip to Proxy Analytics’ Steve Pantina for his help with these):