How can employment and contracting practices in Canada’s property service sector be improved? This was the question posed to a multi-stakeholder group convened by SHARE, in partnership…
Regulation. That was the word of the day at the Canadian launch of the 5th annual Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) report, which took place October 10th in Toronto. Each year, the CDP publishes…
The Shareholder Association for Research and Education and 46 other signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment have called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)…
On May 24, the 2007 BC Pension Forum brought together pension leaders and activists in Vancouver to examine the state of pension plan governance, funding and investment. Held jointly by the BC Federation of Labour and SHARE…
Shareholder activists on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border watched warily as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the federal regulator of securities, held hearings in May…
Executive compensation and “say-on-pay” proposals – submitting executive compensation to an annual shareholder advisory vote – have become the top shareholder issues in the 2007 proxy season.
Escalating corporate executive salaries are an extreme example of the oft-noted and ever-expanding ‘gap between rich and poor’. Just how wide is this gap? It will take most of us an entire year to make…
Meritas Mutual Funds announced today that it has engaged Vancouver-based Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE) to help launch the most comprehensive shareholder action program in its history.