ISS Shareholder Proposals
Moritz Rodenkirchen
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In this blog post, we show how to obtain and analyze shareholder proposal voting data for publicly listed firms in the US. For context, the SEC allows shareholders to submit proposals a few months before the annual general meeting (AGM), and these proposals end up on the ballot and are voted on if (1) a firm’s management does not submit a ‘no-action request’ accepted by the SEC or (2) management and...