Companies are finding virtual shareholder meetings to be cheaper and less time-consuming, but shareholders complain they don’t get as much time to ask their questions. A majority of the companies in the S&P 500 this year have decided to move their shareholder meeting—usually an in-person event—online due to coronavirus-related restrictions on large gatherings. Faced with…
Three large U.S. companies this week said goodbye to their chief financial officers, continuing a surge in CFO departures following months of relative stability. The Wall Street Journal reports that so far this year, 83 CFOs at Fortune 500 companies have left their posts, compared with 84 last year at the same time. But it took several recent departures…
While hundreds of California companies have moved to comply with the state’s women on boards law, the state has not penalized nor brought any enforcement against companies that have ignored aspects of it, from neglecting to file required disclosures to failing to recruit any women. Additionally, the data that has been published by the office…
As states other than California contemplate board quota laws and federal regulators consider legislation concerning mandated board-level diversity disclosure, the women on boards law in California so far has led to an influx of new directors with backgrounds in finance and technology who also hold C-suite roles. According to a new report from data intelligence…
Finance chiefs are changing jobs again after a slowdown in exits and recruitment in thespring, as the pandemic is forcing them to rethink their business models and adding to an already high workload. Three big public companies this week said their CFO would exit. General Motors Co.’s Dhivya Suryadevara is joining Stripe Inc., while Kelly Kramer,…
There are several reasons for boards to move on from a compensation consulting firm, and as the mandate facing comp committees increases in magnitude and scope, some comp consultants may not be the right fit any longer. According to data from public company intelligence provider MyLogIQ, 299 Russell 3000 companies switched comp consulting firms between 2019…
A great deal has been written about how the CEO jobs at America’s largest companies are almost exclusively held by white men. At the other end of the spectrum, the number of female chief executives of color is extremely small: only four. According to research by MyLogIQ, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze…
A new study titled “The Face of Corporate America” examines the racial and gender figures for S&P 500 chief executive officers. The analysis was done by MyLogIQ, Public company intelligence provider, and it shows that only 11% of the CEOs among the companies are people of color. The gender figures and figures about female CEOs of color were…
Getting more women into the corporate boardroom has been a high priority governance issue for several years globally. While there has been progress, has it been enough? According to data from MyLogiq, 30% of corporate directors are female for the companies in the Dow 30, while only 23% are female for companies in the Russell 3000…
Companies including Altria Group, CVS Health and Intel are the latest to have failed say on pay so far this proxy season, as investors zero in on longtime compensation issues that have been magnified by the coronavirus pandemic. Indeed, investors are carefully scrutinizing how pay, strategy and performance will align to weather the storm. Shareholders may react to perceived failings…
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