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SHARE recently made a submission to the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), the forum for all securities regulators in Canada.

Anne Stausboll is the Chief Operating Investment Officer for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the US$242 billion fund that provides pension and health benefits to 1.5 million California public employees…

TransCanada Corporation (TSX: TRP) is expected to face difficult questions from shareholders and First Nations leaders at the company’s April 25 annual general meeting in Calgary. Shareholders will raise concerns…

Donald MacDonald is the Chair of the Board for the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a United Nations-led aspirational set of principles seeking to integrate social, environmental and…

Six of Canada’s seven largest banks have held their 2008 shareholder meetings, and a brief review of the voting results from shareholder proposals provides some interesting information. Each bank has reported the vote…

Shareholders of Canadian public companies had their first opportunity to gain a “say on pay” at CIBC’s annual general meeting held today, with a reported 44.96% of shareholders voting in support of adopting an annual…

In 2008, shareholders of our ‘big five’ banks will be the first investors in a Canadian public company to consider a proposal requesting an annual non-binding vote on the compensation of top executives.

With the intense season of corporate annual meetings about to get underway, trends in shareholder activism are starting to emerge. According to information available so far, it looks like executive compensation…