Senate consideration of Eugene Scalia for Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor has reignited questions about how the department will revise its fiduciary rule after the 2016 rule was vacated by…

“Large institutional shareholders, notably BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, recognise that companies must serve broader social purposes,” writes Martin Lipton (Opinion, September 18). There…

Now is the time to designate proxy advisors as investment advice fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Such a designation is not only necessary to correct…

Over the past year, the U.S. SEC has been engaged in a thorough review of the entire proxy process, including the shareholder voting recommendations provided by proxy advisory firms such as…

Over the past year, the U.S. SEC has been engaged in a thorough review of the entire proxy process, including the shareholder voting recommendations provided by proxy advisory firms such as…

Shareholder voting on proxy contests and mergers & acquisitions (“M&A”) are of critical importance to investors.  In these types of votes shareholders are being asked to…

“Maybe it is time for the SEC to require index funds to poll their investors and vote their shares only as specifically directed,” say Phil Gramm and Michael Solon (“Enemies of the Economic…

I am responding to the Council of Institutional Investors’ (“CII”) request that the NASDAQ Stock Market (“NASDAQ”) amend its listing standards to require companies seeking to go public…

In a new article, I discuss how investment advisers like Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard, can become adequately informed prior to voting their proxies without having to read massive…

Why have some corporate governance scholars (here, here, and here) advocated for imposing various sunset provisions on dual class shares?  After all, dual class share structures are simply the…