Shareholder Activism and Corporate Governance
CalPERS Shareowner ForumDescription: “CalPERS Shareowner Forum is intended to provide an education and communication resource for those interested in the field and CalPERS' activities. We offer it as a forum for the exchange of views”.
Corporate Monitoring
Description: “This site provides information concerning choice of target companies and reduces the total costs shareholders pay for voting advice. It also provides a vast collection of web resources for proxy voting and corporate monitoring”.
Source: Center for the Study of Democracy, 'links to www resources'.
Institutional Shareholders Inc.
Description: Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is the world's leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance services. ISS serves more than 950 institutional and corporate clients worldwide with its core business — analyzing proxies and issuing informed research and objective vote recommendations for more than 10,000 U.S. and 12,000 non-U.S. shareholder meetings each year.
LENS
Description: “Lens was founded in 1991 by Robert A.G. Monks and Nell Minow. Having achieved its investment goals, Lens has now transferred its activist operations to Lens Governance Advisors which is advising institutions and other professionals on corporate governance activities”.
Robert A. G. Monks
Description: This website “focused on the assembly and dissemination of information and opinion about global issues of corporate governance”.
The British Accounting Association Corporate Governance Special Interest Group
Description: It seeks to “encourage research and scholarship in the field of corporate governance including its implications for management, to establish a network of researchers, to improve the teaching of corporate governance, to publish a newsletter and organise conferences, [and] to develop and maintain relationships with the British Accounting Association and other professional organizations”.
TIAA CREF Institute
Description: (The College Retirement Equities Fund) “The mission of TIAA-CREF Institute is to broaden and strengthen TIAA-CREF’s longstanding leadership role in supporting lifelong financial security for individuals and their families”.