Corporate Governance

STATEMENT FROM ACCF ON THE EU PLENARY VOTE ON CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY DUE DILIGENCE DIRECTIVE Following the November 13 plenary vote in the European Parliament, the...

The ACCF hosts House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill (R-AR) for A Conversation on the European Union's Evolving and Far-Reaching Corporate Sustainability Due...

In her guest column “America must act to avoid Eurosclerosis” (Opinion, October 4) Suzanne Clark, the president and chief executive of the US Chamber...

Activists focusing on broad environmental and social issues are increasingly using the shareholder proposal process to push their agendas at U.S. public companies. The...

Washington, DC is witnessing a regulatory race between agencies, sometimes covering each other’s areas, creating unnecessary and burdensome rules with significant economic impacts. Despite...

In 2020, the SEC, chaired by Jay Clayton, proposed a set of amendments aimed to add transparency and fairness to the proxy advisory process....

As is true for many topics, the current administration has a different viewpoint on regulating proxy advisers and shareholder proposals than the previous one....

The ACCF hosts ​A Conversation about Proxy Advisors with Jay Clayton, Former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Jay Clayton served as...

A new study by the American Council for Capital Formation shows Glass Lewis and ISS make material errors in their recommendations to investors.

Washington, DC – After peaking in 1996 at more than 8,000 companies, the number of domestic US-listed public companies traded on major US exchanges...

Recent articles and reviews seem to be drawing more attention to a rising concern for universities and the fossil fuel companies that continue to...

This will ensure that energy and aerospace/defense sectors continue to attract the necessary investment and financing needed to guard global economic growth and national security.

The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance publishes a report, Analysis of Proxy Advisors’ Recommendations During the 2021 Proxy Season, by Kyle Isakower,...

In “Third Point blasts Shell’s efforts to walk the green tightrope” (Opinion, November 4) Brooke Masters has delivered the critical messages we will need...

Environmental, Social, and Governance - ESG – has been growing in prominence as its application becomes essential to investor decisions and for businesses throughout the world...

President-elect Joe Biden has made clear that climate change policy will be a centerpiece of his administration. He has pledged to return the U.S....