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November 2019 Roundtable
I. Index Fund Stewardship: Keynote Session with
BlackRock Vice Chairman & Co-Founder Barbara Novick
A. BlackRock’s Perspective
- Purpose & Profit, BlackRock, Jan. 2019
- BlackRock Investment Stewardship Engagement Priorities for 2019, BlackRock, Jan. 2019
- Proxy Voting Outcomes: By the Numbers, BlackRock, Jul. 2019
- Executive Compensation: The Role of Public Company Shareholders, BlackRock, Jul. 2019
- Shareholders are Dispersed and Diverse, BlackRock, Jul. 2019
- Diversified Portfolios Do Not Reduce Competition, BlackRock, Aug. 2019
B. Other Perspectives
- 2019 Proxy Letter—Aligning Corporate Culture with Long-Term Strategy, State Street Global Advisors, Jan. 2019
- What We Do. How We Do It. Why It Matters: Vanguard’s Investment Stewardship Commentary, Vanguard, May 2019
- Index Funds and the Future of Corporate Governance: Theory, Evidence, and Policy, Lucian Bebchuk and Scott Hirst, Nov. 2018
- Passive Investors, Jill E. Fisch, Assaf Hamdani & Steven Davidoff Solomon, Jul. 2018
- Why Isn’t Your Mutual Fund Sticking Up for You?, Leo E. Strine, Jr., Aug. 2019
II. Stakeholders and Corporate Purpose
The Business Roundtable Statement:
Practical Implications and Legal Constraints:
- Legal Implications of The Business Roundtable Statement on Corporate Purpose, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Aug. 2019
- Stakeholder Governance—Some Legal Points, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Sep. 2019
- Putting to Rest the Debate Between CSR and Current Corporate Law, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Sep. 2019
The Policy Debate on Stakeholders and Corporate Purpose:
- So Long to Shareholder Primacy, Cooley LLP, Aug. 2019
- Stakeholder Governance and the Fiduciary Duties of Directors, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Aug. 2019
- Six Reasons We Don’t Trust the New “Stakeholder” Promise from the Business Roundtable, Nell Minow, Sep. 2019
- Toward Fair and Sustainable Capitalism, Leo E. Strine, Jr., Oct 2019
III. Engagement Between Issuers and Investors
A. Toward the 2020 Proxy Season
B. Share Buybacks
- Examining Corporate Priorities: The Impact of Stock Buybacks on Workers, Communities and Investors, Lenore Palladino, Oct. 2019
- Examining Corporate Priorities: The Impact of Stock Buybacks on Workers, Communities and Investors, Jesse Fried, Oct. 2019
- Petition for Rulemaking to Revise Rule 10b-18, AFL-CIO, Jul. 2019
- Share Buybacks Under Fire, Jones Day, May 2019
- Limit Corporate Stock Buybacks, Senators Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders, Feb. 2019
- Letter on Stock Buybacks and Insiders’ Cashouts, SEC Commissioner Robert J. Jackson, Jr., Mar. 2019
- A Capitalist’s Solution to the Problem of Excessive Buybacks, Nell Minow, Feb. 2019
C. Emerging Consensus?
D. Virtual Meetings
E. SEC’s New Guidance on Proxy Advisors
IV. Compensation Issues
A. Current Compensation Practices
- 2019 Proxy Season Recap and 2020 Trends to Watch, ICR Inc., Sep. 2019 [selected pages]
- The Test of Time: Adapting to a New Era of Executive Compensation, Equilar, Jul. 2019
- Ten Years of Say-on-Pay Data, Pearl Meyer, Jun. 2019
- 2019 U.S. Executive Compensation Trends, Institutional Shareholder Services, Apr. 2019
- Seven Venial Sins of Executive Compensation, Institutional Investor Services, May 2019
B. Compensation and Corporate Purpose
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