Nareit Urges Members to Complete Two Post-Proxy Season Surveys Nasdaq and U.S. Chamber Survey on Proxy Advisory Firms For the last several years, the Nasdaq and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have conducted a post-proxy season survey of U.S. public companies to assess and document U.S. public company experiences with proxy advisory firms. As it has done in previous years, Nasdaq and the U.S. Chamber will provide an analysis of the anonymized and aggregated survey results to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of their on-going initiative to provide feedback regarding the challenges U.S. public companies face when dealing with proxy advisors. Nareit strongly urges its corporate members to participate in the fourth annual Nasdaq and U.S. Chamber Proxy Season Survey by Sept. 15, 2018. Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) 2018 Annual Proxy Voting Policy Survey As Nareit previously advised you , ISS has launched its 2018 Policy Survey, to inform changes in its 2019 proxy season voting policy changes. Part II of the 2018 ISS Policy Survey, which remains open until Sept. 21, 2018, surveys some topics of particular relevance to U.S. REITs. Nareit again urges members to take Part II of the 2018 ISS Policy Survey , which addresses these and related topics:
Contact Penny Rostow, SVP policy & regulatory affairs ( vrostow@nareit.com; 202/739-9431) or Tony Edwards, EVP & general counsel, ( tedwards@nareit.com ; 202/739-9408) |