US - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ignored petitions from the world's largest pension funds by adopting a proposal that stops shareholders from influencing membership of company boards.
Rob Feckner, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) board president, said the SEC had taken a "serious wrong turn" yesterday when it adopted an amendment to Rule 14a-8(i)(8) which...
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