At Tesla’s recent annual meeting, shareholders approved an unusual compensation proposal for CEO Elon Musk – if achieved, he could be the world’s first trillionaire. The vote passed by a comfortable ...

Discover how a voting trust agreement works, transferring shareholder voting rights to a trustee for temporary company control, to prevent or facilitate takeovers.

Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS) continues to use a private contractor, Egan-Jones, to manage proxy votes in compliance with a 2023 anti-ESG law. The law prohibits consideration of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sarah Williamson covers capital markets and long-term strategies. In June, Texas passed Senate Bill 2337, which imposes ...

Climate targets and commitments were the focus of the three most successful climate-related proxy votes in the most recent proxy season. All failed to achieve an outright majority but received at ...