Sentences with phrase «voting policies»

Additionally, it is the board of each fund, rather than the board of each company, are responsible for establishing the proxy voting policies of each fund.

The freedom to change voting policies and systems at the state level, however, is why you see proportional distribution of electoral college votes in some states, for example.

Please click on the link below for your Investment Manager's current proxy voting policies and procedures.

It also plans to introduce a majority voting policy in 2012, which would require directors to offer their resignations to the board if they fail to garner a majority of «for» votes in annual shareholder elections.

- Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

In addition, users of Glass Lewis» proxy voting platform, Viewpoint, will have the ability to incorporate ESG factors into their custom voting policies, tailor workflow and reporting with various ESG criteria and access the full Sustainalytics ESG data set for analysis, screening, voting and engagement purposes.

I modified the proxy voting policy of one of my readers, and I thank him for his help.

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

She recommended McNabb follow «the examples of your peers» and she provided «sample [voting policy] language» from Vanguard competitor, AllianceBernstein, as a suggestion.

Outlining its new voting policy, the CIG said its members would also vote against executive pay packages where pay ratios are not disclosed, excessive pensions for chief executives or where financial services or pharmaceutical companies do not pay the living wage.

«New York's double voting policy hands votes to the major political parties at the expense of minor parties,» said Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long.

The members of Lib Dem Voice just voted the policy director of the Adam Smith Institute their «Liberal Voice of the Year».

While endorsing Democratic congressional candidate Eric Kingson Friday night at the OnCenter Convention Center in Syracuse, Bernie Sanders went on the attack about New York's Democratic voting policies positioning June 28th's primary citing it being so soon after the presidential primary.

Glass Lewis» proxy voting service offers a diverse array of ESG data attributes for our clients to incorporate into their custom proxy voting policies.

Majority voting policies provide minority shareholders with greater influence over the composition of the board of directors, who are their key representatives.

After she sent her letter to McNabb, over 65,000 members of Public Citizen, U.S. PIRG, and Common Cause, among others, sent emails to Vanguard asking it to change its voting policy guidelines to vote in favor of political spending disclosure, she says.

Franklin Templeton Investments is pleased to provide the proxy voting policies and procedures of its affiliated investment advisors, as well as the proxy voting records of its mutual funds.

The proxy voting policies and procedures serve as a guideline for proxy voting decisions and detail the process by which such decisions are made.

Morgan Stanley had no comment other than to refer to it's proxy voting policy that says it considers such proposal on a case - by - base basis.

Its global expertise on corporate governance, accounting, financial transparency and legal and regulatory environments guides the development of Glass Lewis» proxy voting policies and guidelines.

«Just as portfolio managers and analysts are increasingly integrating ESG factors into their investment processes, those professionals responsible for their firms» proxy voting policies and, ultimately their actual proxy votes, also need insights into how these issues are being managed within the boardroom.

Its global expertise on corporate governance, accounting, financial transparency, and legal and regulatory environments will guide development of Glass Lewis» proxy voting policies and guidelines.

SAN FRANCISCO (January 13, 2016)-- Glass Lewis today announced the appointment of Dr. Bonnie Hill to its Research Advisory Council, which comprises experts on corporate governance, accounting, law, financial transparency and regulatory matters and guides the development of Glass Lewis» proxy voting policies and guidelines.

Franklin Templeton Investments is pleased to provide the proxy voting policies and procedures of its U.S. registered Investment Managers, as well as the proxy voting records of its mutual funds.

«We note that under its 2018 voting policy the Church will not back members of nomination committees where less than 25 % of the board are women.

These are jurisdictions that in the view of the federal government have a history of discrimination in their voting policies and can no longer be trusted to continue to change policy without approval from the federal government.

To that end, states are allowed to change their voting procedures as they see fit with the exception of those states, counties and municipalities that are singled out in the Voting Rights Act as needing to be pre-cleared by the Department of Justice before they can make any changes to their voting policies.

I'm really shocked the Canadian one doesn't, because they are all iShares, and it's all the same company, but the two funds in the US have a voting policy statement that says they will vote for any measure that promotes transparency and sustainability.

Instead, here is my proxy voting policy, and I solicit your comments.

Importantly, these iShares ETFs have a clear proxy voting policy «consistent with the principle that «socially responsible» shareholders are concerned not only with economic returns and sound corporate governance, but also with the ethical behavior of corporations and the social and environmental impact of their actions.»

The proxy voting policies and procedures of Broad Run Investment Management, LLC («Broad Run») address the responsibility of Broad Run to ensure that proxies received for portfolio securities held by the Hennessy Focus Fund (the «Focus Fund») are voted in the best interest of the Focus Fund, including in those situations involving a conflict of interest between the Focus Fund on the one hand, and Broad Run or its affiliated persons, on the other hand.

LLC (Glass Lewis), appear to have caught wind of the discussions — both firms added a voting policy in respect of board gender diversity to their 2018 proxy voting guidelines for Canada.

This voting policy suggests that Glass Lewis even expects venture issuers to provide some degree of disclosure in respect of its diversity considerations despite not being required to do so by the CSA Rules.

Their voting policies, procedures along with investors» complaints help them to improve their operations.