The Advisors' Blog

– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

As Susan Wolf mentioned would happen during her podcast regarding Schering-Plough’s experiment of surveying its shareholders about its pay practices ahead of its annual meeting last year, the company issued a report yesterday regarding the survey responses it received. We have posted a copy of this report in our “Say-on-Pay” Practice Area.

As an aside, note that Pfizer is the second company to go “biennial” by announcing yesterday it will start putting say-on-pay on its ballot next year.

RiskMetrics Opens Its Policy Comment Period: Earlier this week, RiskMetrics opened its policy comment period, providing an opportunity for a range of industry constituents to provide feedback on updates to its proxy voting policies in markets worldwide. Topics covered include takeover defenses in the U.S.; board and director independence in Japan, the U.S., and Europe; compensation and slate ballots in Canada; and equity and share purchase authorities in Europe. The comment period runs through November 11th.