"Institutional shareholders" is a phrase used to describe large organizations or financial institutions that own shares in a company. These shareholders could be banks, pension funds, insurance companies, or other big investors. They play a significant role in influencing a company's decisions and direction because of their substantial ownership.
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Perhaps this means that, even
if institutional shareholders engage collectively, they still do not have enough of a voice to influence the board.
Covering equity funds in Europe worth $ 2 trillion, it was developed by two recognized climate specialists: not - for - profit CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) and ISS - Ethix Climate Solutions, part of the responsible investment arm of
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc..
Proxy advisory
firm Institutional Shareholder Services on Thursday recommended Tesla Inc stockholders reject a multi-billion-dollar, 10 - year pay package for Chief Executive Elon Musk, saying the «unprecedented» award was too rich.
It comes as some large
institutional shareholders in Treasury have again been approached by KKR and its advisers who seek to outline the rationale for its proposal at $ 4.70 a share.
Shareholders in the U.S. have filed motions over the years asking that more women and non-whites be named to boards, but the one submitted by Maldonado is the first to make a specific recruitment demand about racial and ethnic groups, according to Edward Kamonjoh, head of the U.S. strategic research analysis
at Institutional Shareholder Services in Washington.
While his pay is likely to be unchanged, it has faced challenges
from Institutional Shareholder Services, a firm that advices shareholders on proxy votes.
He was previously research lead
for Institutional Shareholder Services in Sydney with specific responsibility for Australian, United Kingdom and New Zealand equities and has provided extensive proxy research and corporate governance engagement services to many of the world's largest institutional investors.
«They are leveraging themselves with the hope that the future will look a lot like the past, that oil prices will go back up and things will just go back to the way they were,» said Andrew Logan, director of the oil program at Ceres, a Boston nonprofit that manages a coalition of
institutional shareholders with investments in oil companies.
Daly attributed the drop primarily to a decision
by Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., whose recommendations effectively dictate the votes of a large swath of institutional shareowners.
The Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) is the pre-eminent corporate governance organization in Canada and is uniquely positioned to effect change as the voice of
Canadian institutional shareholders.
The call for consultation follows similar steps by regulators in the United States and Europe, as the perceived power of proxy firms, such
as Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Glass, Lewis & Co., which provide proxy voting advice and other services, has been debated in recent years.
As Twitter this week begins an eight - city road show to pitch its stock sale to
big institutional shareholders like Fidelity, BlackRock and Legg Mason, it will be entering one of the strongest markets for I.P.O.'s in three years, especially in the United States.
It has lost 14 per cent in value since Monday morning in the wake of decision announced by chairman Paul Rayner that many of Treasury's large
institutional shareholders believed $ 5.20 per share undervalued the company.
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And as usual, advisory firms
like Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) are joining with the public pension funds to demand governance reforms that perform better in theory than in practice.
Speculation that Chesapeake, Virginia - based Dollar Tree would prevail increased last week
when Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., an influential proxy adviser for large investors, recommended accepting the offer because of its «near certainty» of closing.
On
Monday Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) released a report recommending shareholders vote against 10 of Mylan's 11 current board members, including CEO Heather Bresch.
The report from proxy advisory
group Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called «Gender Diversity on Boards: a Review of Global Trends,» shows that the number of females among new board nominees at the largest U.S. companies has been steadily climbing in recent years.
This DealBook article about the new alliances between activist hedge funds and long -
only institutional shareholders is full of enjoyable oddities; here is my favorite part:
Top institutional shareholders include Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.55 %), Rhumbline Advisers (0.24 %), Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC (0.19 %), Hussman Strategic Advisors Inc. (0.13 %), DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale (0.02 %) and FDx Advisors Inc. (0.02 %).
Due to the heightened scrutiny resulting from the scandal, Petrobras was one of the first Brazilian companies to offer
foreign institutional shareholders the opportunity to vote on independent shareholder - nominated board candidates in 2015.
Institutional shareholders seem to have mixed feelings about the situation — some have increased their stakes in Spark following the TransGrid transaction, while others are doing the opposite as a relatively unchanged share price since the November transaction announcement suggests.
However, with the extra voting rights now attributed to Vincent Bolloré after the failure of a majority - approved shareholder proposal to obtain supermajority support to keep a one - share - one - vote principle at the 2015 annual meeting, the perspective of
institutional shareholders not availing of double voting rights may be less relevant in 2016.
On Tuesday The Australian Financial Review reported major
institutional shareholders helped force Mr Neal's axing after a shock profit downgrade in June was followed in August by revelations of a «major disappointment» in the performance of QBE's emerging markets unit in the six months to June 30.
This has proven to be an effective way for companies to
reach institutional shareholders directly, empowering clients with more information while providing an opportunity to pose questions directly to company executives and directors as well as shareholder proponent and dissident nominees in contested elections.
This came after an exhaustive due diligence process where Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and junior partner Rhone Capital, and rival bidder TPG Capital, investigated the inner workings of the company but couldn't pay what the company's major
institutional shareholders wanted.
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The company's mea culpa and promises to change its practices have come «in response to news reports, even though the company has known for a couple of years,» said Connor, who has worked with a couple of
Facebook institutional shareholders.
Dr Leblanc has served as an external advisor to boards that have won national awards and peer endorsement
from institutional shareholders for their corporate governance practices and has also acted as a corporate governance expert witness in recent years.