Shareholder proposals targeting corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have surged across Russell 3000 companies in the 2025 proxy season. According to a new analysis powered by the CompanyIQ® corporate research platform, these “anti-DEI” proposals more than doubled in the 2025 proxy year compared to previous years—yet none have passed, garnering on average just…
Using the MyLogIQ CompanyIQ research platform, we analyzed the proxy statements of Russell 3000 companies from 2022-2024 for artificial intelligence (AI)-related shareholder proposals. Among our findings are: 13 AI shareholders proposals were submitted in 2024. That’s a threefold increase from the 2023 proxy season. More than 50% of the 2024 AI shareholder proposals were sponsored…
ESG IN PROXIES
Public companies may ask the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for permission to omit shareholder proposals from their proxy votes through a no- action letter request under Rule 14a-8. This report, utilitzing the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR search tool, analyzes the SEC’s responses to these requests from January 1, 2019 through June 25, 2019.
Proxy Access Varies by Index – The right of shareholders to nominate directors for election to boards, known as proxy access, varies widely across the indices. Chart 1 with data from the CompanyIQ® corporate governance database has the details for eight common indices in 2017, the latest year with full data available. On the upper…
With data from the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR database, Egan-Jones analyzed TWDC. On March 4, 2019, The Walt Disney Company (the “Company”) and Robert A. Iger entered into an amendment to Mr. Iger’s employment agreement with the Company (the “Amendment”). The Amendment reduces by $13,500,000 the annual total compensation opportunities that the Company would have made…
Forty-five days into the 2019 annual general meeting season, 42 S&P 500 companies have filed their annual proxies. With data from the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR database, this report makes some early observations about shareholder proposals that appear on those proxies and will be voted on at annual general meetings. 30% of S&P 500 companies face…
How does 2019 compare to 2018 for shareholder proposals? See what these 18 companies tell us based on S&P 500 proxy data from the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR database.
Introduction Public companies may ask the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for permission to omit shareholder proposals from their proxy votes through a no-action letter request under Rule 14a-8. Executive Summary In this CompanyIQ® report, you will find an analysis of SEC staff no-action letters from January 1, 2018 through June 15, 2018 in response…
Public companies may ask the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for permission to omit shareholder proposals from their proxy votes through a no- action letter request under Rule 14a-8. This report analyzes the SEC’s responses to these requests from January 1, 2018 through June 15, 2018. Our CompanyIQ® analysis of the 222 no-action letters issued…