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Corporate

Sep. 15, 2016

Shareholder pressure on executive compensation, board elections, climate change dominate 2016 proxy season

The settled dust from this year's proxy season has revealed a corporate governance landscape in which shareholders appeared more apt to exert pressure on boardrooms to address these issues, according to recent data.

By Banks Albach
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The settled dust from this year's proxy season has revealed a corporate governance landscape in which shareholders appeared more apt to exert pressure on boardrooms to address issues of executive compensation, director elections and how climate change might impact a company's bottom line, according to recent data on shareholder initiatives in 2016.

Just six years in the making, the "say on pay...

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