Should Proxy Advisory Firms Be Regulated ? Yes according to Richard Leblanc


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Governance Gateway Blog » Should Proxy Advisory Firms Be Regulated? Yes. yorku.ca

 

« The Ontario Securities Commission has asked whether proxy advisory firms should be regulated. (Proxy advisory firms, such as Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, which is owned by Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, provide governance assessment and recommendations to institutional shareholders on their voting at annual meetings of companies.) In my view, proxy advisory firms should be regulated for three important reasons.

Conflicts of Interest

Lack of Qualitative Assessment of Governance Quality and Predictive Validity on Shareholder Value

Lack of Transparency »