This edition of ProxyPulseTM provides insights and data on shareholder voting trends from 1,040 annual meetings held during the "mini-season" between July 1 and December 31, 2017.
We also look at key corporate governance developments for the 2018 proxy season.
Highlights:
Several large institutional investors are holding companies accountable for gender diversity in the boardroom.
Shareholder proposals focused on environmental issues—such as disclosing the long-term impact of climate change on the business—received majority support in 2017 at a handful of S&P 500 companies for the first time.
Starting in 2018, companies will begin making mandatory CEO pay ratio disclosures, comparing the total compensation of their chief executive officer with that of their median employee.
Retail ownership, at 35%, was the lowest percentage since the 2012 mini-season.
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