Recent News
Bloomberg Backs Binding Shareholder Votes on Executive Pay and Separation of CEO / Board Chairs
European Union regulators are now considering a next step: giving owners a binding vote on top pay instead of the nonbinding “say on pay” that prevails in much of the EU and in the U.S. since 2011, compliments of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. We understand why...
22 States & D.C. Join Montana Against Citizens United
Let's talk about states rights. How about a state's right to keep its elections free from corporate political intervention? Last year, HII co-filed an amicus brief regarding this case in which we argued that the large publicly traded corporations in which we are...
16% of WellPoint Shareholders Support Comprehensive Political Disclosure
The media is reporting the results of the recent WellPoint vote on political disclosure as if we "lost," but history shows that 16% support is a big shareholder vote and sends a strong message to management that this issue isn't just going to go away. As reported in...
WellPoint Faces Shareholder Ire Over Political Spending
We hope that the below article in Fortune magazine, focusing on a political disclosure resolution we filed with Wellpoint, portends a strong shareholder mandate for increased accountability at the Annual General Meeting next week: By Eleanor Bloxham, CEO of The Value...
Getting the Money Out
It’s worrying to think that shareholder democracy is needed to rectify shortcomings of the real thing. Yet this week two of the nation’s biggest corporations will give their investors precisely that opportunity. Motions on the ballots at the annual meetings of Bank of...