This paper examines the impact on shareholder voting of the mutual fund voting disclosure regulation adopted by the SEC in 2003, using a paired sample of management proposals on executive equity incentive compensation plans submitted before and after the rule change. While voting support for management has decreased over time, we find no evidence that mutual funds’ support for management declined after the rule change, as expected by advocates of disclosure. In fact, we find evidence of increased support for management by mutual funds after the change. There is some evidence that firms sponsoring such proposals both before and after the rule change differ from those sponsoring a proposal only before the change. For example, firms are more l...
This chapter investigates voting decisions by mutual funds in a variety of management-sponsored prop...
[Excerpt] On August 31, 2004, for the first time, the nation’s mutual fund companies reported how th...
We investigate whether business ties with portfolio firms influence mutual funds' proxy voting using...
This paper examines the impact on shareholder voting of the mutual fund voting disclosure regulation...
77 pagesThis paper examines the effect of disclosure regulation on mutual fund families’ proxy votin...
Mutual funds hold large blocks of shares in many major corporations. Practitioners and regulators al...
This article examines the impact on shareholder voting of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SE...
Confidential voting in corporate proxies is a principal recommendation in activist institutional inv...
Dragana Cvijanović, Amil Dasgupta and Konstantinos E. Zachariadis discuss how this presents a confli...
The proxy advisory and corporate governance industry plays a significant role in shareholder voting ...
We employ a new comprehensive proxy voting records database to investigate whether mutual funds cons...
and Yale School of Management. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not nece...
[Excerpt] On August 31, 2004, for the first time, the nation’s mutual fund companies reported how th...
Shareholder voting has become an increasingly important focus of corporate governance, and mutual fu...
When Roberta Karmel wrote the articles that are the subject of this symposium, she was skeptical of ...
This chapter investigates voting decisions by mutual funds in a variety of management-sponsored prop...
[Excerpt] On August 31, 2004, for the first time, the nation’s mutual fund companies reported how th...
We investigate whether business ties with portfolio firms influence mutual funds' proxy voting using...
This paper examines the impact on shareholder voting of the mutual fund voting disclosure regulation...
77 pagesThis paper examines the effect of disclosure regulation on mutual fund families’ proxy votin...
Mutual funds hold large blocks of shares in many major corporations. Practitioners and regulators al...
This article examines the impact on shareholder voting of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SE...
Confidential voting in corporate proxies is a principal recommendation in activist institutional inv...
Dragana Cvijanović, Amil Dasgupta and Konstantinos E. Zachariadis discuss how this presents a confli...
The proxy advisory and corporate governance industry plays a significant role in shareholder voting ...
We employ a new comprehensive proxy voting records database to investigate whether mutual funds cons...
and Yale School of Management. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not nece...
[Excerpt] On August 31, 2004, for the first time, the nation’s mutual fund companies reported how th...
Shareholder voting has become an increasingly important focus of corporate governance, and mutual fu...
When Roberta Karmel wrote the articles that are the subject of this symposium, she was skeptical of ...
This chapter investigates voting decisions by mutual funds in a variety of management-sponsored prop...
[Excerpt] On August 31, 2004, for the first time, the nation’s mutual fund companies reported how th...
We investigate whether business ties with portfolio firms influence mutual funds' proxy voting using...