2023 was the hardest year of my life and as we turned towards 2024, I blogged some tips about how to help those in your life in need of support. I’m happy to say that I’ve turned it all around…
I found this blog entitled “Can Improved Communication About Executive Compensation Pay Off?” by Pearl Meyer’s Sharon Podstupka to be interesting. It analyzes a study about whether boards and their management teams believe they adequately educate participants about executive compensation…
Following up on this Part 1, these eight things can help you understand what “transparency” is – and isn’t:
Transparency is all about trust – Transparency is an essential condition for building and keeping lasting trust. Transparency requires timeliness. Transparency…
With the “6th Annual Transparency Awards” in the US behind us, it’s a good time to be thinking about “what is ‘transparency’ anyway?”
Defining “transparency” as applied to corporate disclosure is not be as easy as some think. It’s the…
In his 3rd quarter issue of the “Shareholder Service Optimizer,” Carl Hagberg devotes his lead piece to our most recent “Transparency Awards” and urges us all to be more transparent in our disclosures. In addition to listing the winners of…
I am happy to announce the first 50 “Transparency Advocates.” Among this initial group of 50 Advocates are 19 former SEC Staffers.
The Transparency Advocates consist of a group of well-known disclosure drafters and disclosure readers. These influential people believe…
I’ve been blogging long enough to know that you never know which of your blogs will create the biggest buzz. My last blog did indeed create a buzz as I got quite a few emails back about it. Here are…
My good friend Carl Hagberg is one of the smartest – and certainly the most experienced – people when it comes to the proxy process. He has served as in independent inspector of elections for a long time and is…
As I enter my second year wearing the “Transparency Champion” hat, I’ll be endeavoring to answer the question of “why should I be pushing for better disclosure within my company?” I’ve already listed a number of reasons on our “Why…
I know that generative AI will likely soon turn SEO on its head as it becomes the predominant way that we “search” for things. At least that’s my gut feeling about generative AI. Regardless, SEO is still king and queen…
Recently, I came across a nifty new free Edgar retrieval site called “KFilings” and I asked the guy who launched the site – Andrew Jennings (who is an associate professor for Emory Law School) – these questions:
What led you…
Following up on my blog about four bewildering things about plain English: A few years back, a study from Labrador and BVA extolled the benefits of “plain language” – as compared to “ordinary” language – based on surveying real people.…
We’re in the process of slugging through the five types of disclosure documents for the S&P 250, applying our transparency criteria to them to determine how companies are doing overall and who is doing it the best ahead of the…
I just wrapped up reading Matthew Sekol’s “ESG Mindset: Business Resilience and Sustainable Growth.” (You can also buy the book on Amazon – the other link takes you to the publisher’s site. Support Indie publishers!)
It’s a “must read” for…
Recently, ISS-Corporate Solutions issued a report – entitled “Gender Pay Equity: Assessing Corporate Transparency and Performance” – that offers analysis and a trove of data about gender pay equity and pay gap disclosure practices drawn from disclosures made by over…
