Sentences with phrase «shareholder democracy»

If economists were to take this seriously and apply it to shareholder behavior, they might discover that the case for shareholder democracy is seriously undermined.

She predicts investor engagement is only going to increase in the coming years, so calls for improved shareholder democracy are not going to get any quieter.

They react as if shareholder democracy equates to shareholder - friendly governance, notwithstanding any actual evidence to support that.

Earlier this year, it began taking soundings on shareholder democracy issues, including proposals on whether to ban slate voting and mandate majority voting, which would ensure all directors are elected by a majority of voting shareholders, advisory votes on compensation, and the effectiveness of the proxy voting system.

CCGG Letter of Response to the OSC Staff Notice 54 - 701: Regulatory Developments Regarding Shareholder Democracy Issues

Shareholder democracy activists should not get carried away by the arrival of proxy access proposals north of the border, according to a Toronto lawyer.

One funny aspect of American shareholder democracy is that normally only the board of directors nominates candidates for the board of directors.

The problem with plebiscitary shareholder democracy becomes even more obvious when the decision tree becomes more complex than a mere binary choice.

As usual, the people most agitated about this are the governance mavens with a knee - jerk reaction against anything that undermines shareholder democracy.

Having reviewed the Group's principles, FAIR Canada is concerned about the increasing number of multi-voting corporations undertaking IPOs in Canada and the impact of this structure on shareholder democracy more broadly.

Professor Mohamed F. Khimji, the David Allgood Professor of Business Law at Queen's University, has won a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant as principal investigator for the project Shareholder Democracy in Public Corporations — An Empirical and Economic Analysis.

Investors want more rights, and shareholder democracy advocates like the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, which was formed in 2003 to represent the interests of institutional investors, are now targeting improvements to the way they elect their representatives on the board.

So if the markets turn around maybe you'll see fewer [proxy contests], but at the same time, if in fact proxy contests are more motivated by this larger shareholder democracy trend then maybe they will be here to stay.»

To start, Backfeed hopes to help The DAO become better at problem solving, relying less on a «simple shareholder democracy» that it believes could produce «mediocre results».

6) How would you improve shareholder democracy and Company Law in order to reduce corporate fraud, tax evasion and avoidance, and excessive executive pay and bonuses?

Even so, I draw implications for policies which might achieve some support from across the political spectrum, including the elimination of tax preferences that favour those with high incomes, the promotion of shareholder democracy and, to maintain Canada's relatively high intergenerational mobility, continued wide accessibility to healthcare and education.

Andrew MacDougall, a partner at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, served as counsel to an Institute of Corporate Directors task force on shareholder democracy.

They do not elaborate on the details, but imagine 100m Americans pressing a «shareholder democracy» app on their phones.

An imbalance of shares and votes may seem like an insurmountable obstacle to shareholder democracy.

CCBE fully acknowledges the potential risk that an imbalance of economic interest and voting control presents to the core of shareholder democracy.

At times, the complicated system of proxy voting for shareholders can more resemble a third - world dictatorship than a shareholder democracy.