4 Things to Disclose About Shareholder Proposals in Your Proxy

Some companies receive shareholder proposals from certain eligible shareholders that get placed on the ballot for shareholders to vote upon, regardless if the company wants them on the ballot or not.

There is a SEC rule – Rule 14a-8 – which enables companies to attempt to knock shareholder proposals out of the proxy. But some shareholder proposals make it into the proxy, either because that SEC rule doesn’t permit the exclusion – or because companies are okay with placing them on the ballot.

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