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Engagement evolves as investors target ESG
This year’s proxy season was marked by institutional investors piling pressure onto companies to adopt disclosure policies in a range of ESG-related areas. As a result, boards and governance teams are changing the way they engage with investors in an effort to avoid being on the wrong end of a vote.
After coping with a typically stressful proxy season in 2017, directors and governance teams should be hearing voices. Those voices belong to their shareholders – in particular, newly focused and agenda-driven institutional investors. Although the changes in
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