U.S. SEC allows investors to cherry-pick candidates in contested corporate elections

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The vast majority of corporate votes are cast remotely.<blockquote>与加拿大和澳大利亚等国家不同，美国的投资者无法从这些竞争名单中混合搭配，除非他们派代表亲自在年会上投票。绝大多数公司投票都是远程投票的。</blockquote> In 2016, two weeks before the election of former President Donald Trump, the securities regulator proposed an Obama-era reform that would have given shareholders in companies more freedom to vote for their preferred candidates during contested board elections.<blockquote>2016年，在前总统唐纳德·特朗普当选前两周，证券监管机构提出了奥巴马时代的改革，该改革将给予公司股东更多自由，在有争议的董事会选举中投票给他们喜欢的候选人。</blockquote> It was later shelved by the agency’s then Republican leadership, which cited a preference to loosening rules that it said deterred firms from going public.<blockquote>该法案后来被该机构当时的共和党领导层搁置，他们表示倾向于放松规则，称这些规则阻碍了公司上市。</blockquote> Wednesday’s rule requires “universal” proxy cards listing all duly nominated director candidates, effectively allowing shareholders to mix and match.<blockquote>周三的规则要求“通用”代理卡列出所有正式提名的董事候选人，实际上允许股东混合搭配。</blockquote> Investor advocates say the former system allowed corporate management to skew elections by proposing ballots with limited candidates whom they prefer. Other candidates submitted by investors are often relegated to separate ballots.<blockquote>投资者权益倡导者表示，以前的制度允许公司管理层通过向他们喜欢的有限候选人提议投票来扭曲选举。投资者提交的其他候选人通常会被单独投票。</blockquote> Business groups approve the status quo, calling it efficient and warning that a universal proxy card could lead to over-voting, more frequent disqualification of defective ballots and even shareholder confusion.<blockquote>商业团体认可现状，称其高效，并警告称通用代理卡可能会导致过度投票、更频繁地取消有缺陷选票的资格，甚至股东混乱。</blockquote> The new rule will put investors voting in person on an equal footing with those voting by proxy, said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.<blockquote>SEC主席加里·詹斯勒(Gary Gensler)表示，新规则将使亲自投票的投资者与代理投票的投资者处于平等地位。</blockquote> “It makes sense that shareholders should be able to see all the candidates in one place, just as they would in person. This is an important aspect of shareholder democracy,” he added.<blockquote>“股东应该能够在一个地方看到所有候选人，就像他们亲自看到一样，这是有道理的。这是股东民主的一个重要方面，”他补充道。</blockquote> Advocates welcomed the SEC’s decision.<blockquote>倡导者对SEC的决定表示欢迎。</blockquote> “This should be called the investor-choice rule,” said Amy Borrus, who leads the Washington-based Council of Institutional Investors. “This small but significant reform ensures that investors voting by proxy card - as the vast majority of institutional and individual investors do - can vote for whichever combination of director nominees they think best serves their interests.”<blockquote>“这应该被称为投资者选择规则，”总部位于华盛顿的机构投资者委员会负责人艾米·博鲁斯(Amy Borrus)表示。“这项虽小但意义重大的改革确保了通过代理卡投票的投资者——就像绝大多数机构和个人投资者一样——可以投票给他们认为最符合他们利益的任何董事提名组合。”</blockquote> An influential proxy adviser, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called the measure “a significant milestone” that ensures corporate elections are “fair, transparent, and efficient.”<blockquote>一位有影响力的代理顾问机构股东服务公司（ISS）称这项措施是“一个重要的里程碑”，可确保公司选举“公平、透明和高效”。</blockquote> Elad Roisman, a Republican commissioner, voted in favor of the measure but said he would have preferred that the rule require those launching a proxy contest to meet certain eligibility criteria, such as thresholds of ownership in the target company or holding periods for the company’s stock.<blockquote>共和党委员埃拉德·罗斯曼(Elad Roisman)投票赞成这项措施，但表示他更希望该规则要求发起代理权竞争的人满足某些资格标准，例如目标公司的所有权门槛或公司股票的持有期。</blockquote> “Such criteria would demonstrate that a dissident has an economic stake or investment interest in the target company.”<blockquote>“这样的标准将证明持不同政见者在目标公司中拥有经济利益或投资利益。”</blockquote> ADDITIONAL PROXY ADVISER MEASURE<blockquote>额外代理顾问措施</blockquote> The U.S. markets regulator also voted to propose a measure that requires enhanced disclosure and voting options in all corporate director elections.<blockquote>美国市场监管机构还投票提出了一项措施，要求在所有公司董事选举中加强披露和投票选项。</blockquote> Subject to public consultation before it can be adopted, the proposal would rescind a Trump-era rule that sought to restrict proxy advisory firms, which recommend to investors how to vote and cast ballots on behalf of some asset managers.<blockquote>在通过之前，该提案将废除特朗普时代试图限制代理咨询公司的规则，这些公司向投资者推荐如何投票以及代表一些资产管理公司投票。</blockquote> This SEC proposal would undo, among other previous restrictions, a condition that required proxy advisory firms to make their advice available to companies that are the subject of their advice at or before the meeting.<blockquote>除之前的其他限制外，美国证券交易委员会的这项提案将取消一项条件，该条件要求代理咨询公司在会议上或会议之前向其建议对象的公司提供其建议。</blockquote> On Wednesday, industry groups like the National Association of Manufacturers said they were “extremely concerned” that the SEC proposed revisions to a 2020 proxy rule “absent of any new information about its impact on the market.”<blockquote>周三，全国制造商协会等行业组织表示，他们“极其担心”SEC提议对2020年代理规则进行修订，“没有任何有关其对市场影响的新信息”。</blockquote> The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized the move as a sign the agency “is not serious about rooting out and eliminating misinformation and conflicts of interest in the proxy process.”<blockquote>强大的美国商会批评此举表明该机构“并不认真根除和消除代理过程中的错误信息和利益冲突”。</blockquote>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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The vast majority of corporate votes are cast remotely.<blockquote>与加拿大和澳大利亚等国家不同，美国的投资者无法从这些竞争名单中混合搭配，除非他们派代表亲自在年会上投票。绝大多数公司投票都是远程投票的。</blockquote> In 2016, two weeks before the election of former President Donald Trump, the securities regulator proposed an Obama-era reform that would have given shareholders in companies more freedom to vote for their preferred candidates during contested board elections.<blockquote>2016年，在前总统唐纳德·特朗普当选前两周，证券监管机构提出了奥巴马时代的改革，该改革将给予公司股东更多自由，在有争议的董事会选举中投票给他们喜欢的候选人。</blockquote> It was later shelved by the agency’s then Republican leadership, which cited a preference to loosening rules that it said deterred firms from going public.<blockquote>该法案后来被该机构当时的共和党领导层搁置，他们表示倾向于放松规则，称这些规则阻碍了公司上市。</blockquote> Wednesday’s rule requires “universal” proxy cards listing all duly nominated director candidates, effectively allowing shareholders to mix and match.<blockquote>周三的规则要求“通用”代理卡列出所有正式提名的董事候选人，实际上允许股东混合搭配。</blockquote> Investor advocates say the former system allowed corporate management to skew elections by proposing ballots with limited candidates whom they prefer. Other candidates submitted by investors are often relegated to separate ballots.<blockquote>投资者权益倡导者表示，以前的制度允许公司管理层通过向他们喜欢的有限候选人提议投票来扭曲选举。投资者提交的其他候选人通常会被单独投票。</blockquote> Business groups approve the status quo, calling it efficient and warning that a universal proxy card could lead to over-voting, more frequent disqualification of defective ballots and even shareholder confusion.<blockquote>商业团体认可现状，称其高效，并警告称通用代理卡可能会导致过度投票、更频繁地取消有缺陷选票的资格，甚至股东混乱。</blockquote> The new rule will put investors voting in person on an equal footing with those voting by proxy, said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.<blockquote>SEC主席加里·詹斯勒(Gary Gensler)表示，新规则将使亲自投票的投资者与代理投票的投资者处于平等地位。</blockquote> “It makes sense that shareholders should be able to see all the candidates in one place, just as they would in person. This is an important aspect of shareholder democracy,” he added.<blockquote>“股东应该能够在一个地方看到所有候选人，就像他们亲自看到一样，这是有道理的。这是股东民主的一个重要方面，”他补充道。</blockquote> Advocates welcomed the SEC’s decision.<blockquote>倡导者对SEC的决定表示欢迎。</blockquote> “This should be called the investor-choice rule,” said Amy Borrus, who leads the Washington-based Council of Institutional Investors. “This small but significant reform ensures that investors voting by proxy card - as the vast majority of institutional and individual investors do - can vote for whichever combination of director nominees they think best serves their interests.”<blockquote>“这应该被称为投资者选择规则，”总部位于华盛顿的机构投资者委员会负责人艾米·博鲁斯(Amy Borrus)表示。“这项虽小但意义重大的改革确保了通过代理卡投票的投资者——就像绝大多数机构和个人投资者一样——可以投票给他们认为最符合他们利益的任何董事提名组合。”</blockquote> An influential proxy adviser, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called the measure “a significant milestone” that ensures corporate elections are “fair, transparent, and efficient.”<blockquote>一位有影响力的代理顾问机构股东服务公司（ISS）称这项措施是“一个重要的里程碑”，可确保公司选举“公平、透明和高效”。</blockquote> Elad Roisman, a Republican commissioner, voted in favor of the measure but said he would have preferred that the rule require those launching a proxy contest to meet certain eligibility criteria, such as thresholds of ownership in the target company or holding periods for the company’s stock.<blockquote>共和党委员埃拉德·罗斯曼(Elad Roisman)投票赞成这项措施，但表示他更希望该规则要求发起代理权竞争的人满足某些资格标准，例如目标公司的所有权门槛或公司股票的持有期。</blockquote> “Such criteria would demonstrate that a dissident has an economic stake or investment interest in the target company.”<blockquote>“这样的标准将证明持不同政见者在目标公司中拥有经济利益或投资利益。”</blockquote> ADDITIONAL PROXY ADVISER MEASURE<blockquote>额外代理顾问措施</blockquote> The U.S. markets regulator also voted to propose a measure that requires enhanced disclosure and voting options in all corporate director elections.<blockquote>美国市场监管机构还投票提出了一项措施，要求在所有公司董事选举中加强披露和投票选项。</blockquote> Subject to public consultation before it can be adopted, the proposal would rescind a Trump-era rule that sought to restrict proxy advisory firms, which recommend to investors how to vote and cast ballots on behalf of some asset managers.<blockquote>在通过之前，该提案将废除特朗普时代试图限制代理咨询公司的规则，这些公司向投资者推荐如何投票以及代表一些资产管理公司投票。</blockquote> This SEC proposal would undo, among other previous restrictions, a condition that required proxy advisory firms to make their advice available to companies that are the subject of their advice at or before the meeting.<blockquote>除之前的其他限制外，美国证券交易委员会的这项提案将取消一项条件，该条件要求代理咨询公司在会议上或会议之前向其建议对象的公司提供其建议。</blockquote> On Wednesday, industry groups like the National Association of Manufacturers said they were “extremely concerned” that the SEC proposed revisions to a 2020 proxy rule “absent of any new information about its impact on the market.”<blockquote>周三，全国制造商协会等行业组织表示，他们“极其担心”SEC提议对2020年代理规则进行修订，“没有任何有关其对市场影响的新信息”。</blockquote> The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized the move as a sign the agency “is not serious about rooting out and eliminating misinformation and conflicts of interest in the proxy process.”<blockquote>强大的美国商会批评此举表明该机构“并不认真根除和消除代理过程中的错误信息和利益冲突”。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-sec-proxy/update-4-u-s-sec-allows-investors-to-cherry-pick-candidates-in-contested-corporate-elections-idUSL1N2S736C\">Reuters</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"道琼斯"},"source_url":"https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-sec-proxy/update-4-u-s-sec-allows-investors-to-cherry-pick-candidates-in-contested-corporate-elections-idUSL1N2S736C","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1150073500","content_text":"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday agreed to give investors who vote by proxy more freedom to choose their candidates during contested corporate board elections, as the agency’s Democratic leadership seeks to bolster shareholder rights.\nUntil now, shareholders who voted remotely in contested elections had to choose from a full slate of board directors nominated by the management or a competing set of nominees provided by an activist investor.\nThe five-commissioner panel voted 4-1 to adopt the new rule.\nUnlike in countries such as Canada and Australia, investors in the United States could not mix and match from these competing lists unless they sent a representative to vote in person at the annual meeting. The vast majority of corporate votes are cast remotely.\nIn 2016, two weeks before the election of former President Donald Trump, the securities regulator proposed an Obama-era reform that would have given shareholders in companies more freedom to vote for their preferred candidates during contested board elections.\nIt was later shelved by the agency’s then Republican leadership, which cited a preference to loosening rules that it said deterred firms from going public.\nWednesday’s rule requires “universal” proxy cards listing all duly nominated director candidates, effectively allowing shareholders to mix and match.\nInvestor advocates say the former system allowed corporate management to skew elections by proposing ballots with limited candidates whom they prefer. Other candidates submitted by investors are often relegated to separate ballots.\nBusiness groups approve the status quo, calling it efficient and warning that a universal proxy card could lead to over-voting, more frequent disqualification of defective ballots and even shareholder confusion.\nThe new rule will put investors voting in person on an equal footing with those voting by proxy, said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.\n“It makes sense that shareholders should be able to see all the candidates in one place, just as they would in person. This is an important aspect of shareholder democracy,” he added.\nAdvocates welcomed the SEC’s decision.\n“This should be called the investor-choice rule,” said Amy Borrus, who leads the Washington-based Council of Institutional Investors. “This small but significant reform ensures that investors voting by proxy card - as the vast majority of institutional and individual investors do - can vote for whichever combination of director nominees they think best serves their interests.”\nAn influential proxy adviser, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called the measure “a significant milestone” that ensures corporate elections are “fair, transparent, and efficient.”\nElad Roisman, a Republican commissioner, voted in favor of the measure but said he would have preferred that the rule require those launching a proxy contest to meet certain eligibility criteria, such as thresholds of ownership in the target company or holding periods for the company’s stock.\n“Such criteria would demonstrate that a dissident has an economic stake or investment interest in the target company.”\nADDITIONAL PROXY ADVISER MEASURE\nThe U.S. markets regulator also voted to propose a measure that requires enhanced disclosure and voting options in all corporate director elections.\nSubject to public consultation before it can be adopted, the proposal would rescind a Trump-era rule that sought to restrict proxy advisory firms, which recommend to investors how to vote and cast ballots on behalf of some asset managers.\nThis SEC proposal would undo, among other previous restrictions, a condition that required proxy advisory firms to make their advice available to companies that are the subject of their advice at or before the meeting.\nOn Wednesday, industry groups like the National Association of Manufacturers said they were “extremely concerned” that the SEC proposed revisions to a 2020 proxy rule “absent of any new information about its impact on the market.”\nThe powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized the move as a sign the agency “is not serious about rooting out and eliminating misinformation and conflicts of interest in the proxy process.”","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{".DJI":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6621217,"gmtCreate":1637193237453,"gmtModify":1637193237485,"authorId":3582061758353540,"author":{"id":3582061758353540,"idStr":"3582061758353540","authorId":3582061758353540,"name":"SiewLooiWan","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/882a76fb2f3809d087f6c6ad77073f77","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[],"wearingBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":878646962,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"sure","text":"sure","html":"sure"},{"id":6621214,"gmtCreate":1637193219827,"gmtModify":1637193219922,"authorId":3580704334567935,"author":{"id":3580704334567935,"idStr":"3580704334567935","authorId":3580704334567935,"name":"whywhywhywhy","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/28195847b88a5c5115f0ab53d2eb35e7","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[],"wearingBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":878646962,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"OK","text":"OK","html":"OK"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":878648579,"gmtCreate":1637192972650,"gmtModify":1637192972893,"author":{"id":"3560421500323385","authorId":"3560421500323385","name":"TriciaChang","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5cb6619edb253a8bb8b2776c7d9b0e02","vip":1,"crmLevel":12,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"wearingBadges":[],"idStr":"3560421500323385","authorIdStr":"3560421500323385"},"htmlText":"Wow","listText":"Wow","text":"Wow","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/878648579","repostId":1150073500,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1150073500","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1637192664,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1150073500?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-11-18 07:44","market":"us","language":"en","title":"U.S. SEC allows investors to cherry-pick candidates in contested corporate elections<blockquote>美国证券交易委员会允许投资者在有争议的公司选举中挑选候选人</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1150073500","media":"Reuters","summary":"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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The vast majority of corporate votes are cast remotely.<blockquote>与加拿大和澳大利亚等国家不同，美国的投资者无法从这些竞争名单中混合搭配，除非他们派代表亲自在年会上投票。绝大多数公司投票都是远程投票的。</blockquote> In 2016, two weeks before the election of former President Donald Trump, the securities regulator proposed an Obama-era reform that would have given shareholders in companies more freedom to vote for their preferred candidates during contested board elections.<blockquote>2016年，在前总统唐纳德·特朗普当选前两周，证券监管机构提出了奥巴马时代的改革，该改革将给予公司股东更多自由，在有争议的董事会选举中投票给他们喜欢的候选人。</blockquote> It was later shelved by the agency’s then Republican leadership, which cited a preference to loosening rules that it said deterred firms from going public.<blockquote>该法案后来被该机构当时的共和党领导层搁置，他们表示倾向于放松规则，称这些规则阻碍了公司上市。</blockquote> Wednesday’s rule requires “universal” proxy cards listing all duly nominated director candidates, effectively allowing shareholders to mix and match.<blockquote>周三的规则要求“通用”代理卡列出所有正式提名的董事候选人，实际上允许股东混合搭配。</blockquote> Investor advocates say the former system allowed corporate management to skew elections by proposing ballots with limited candidates whom they prefer. Other candidates submitted by investors are often relegated to separate ballots.<blockquote>投资者权益倡导者表示，以前的制度允许公司管理层通过向他们喜欢的有限候选人提议投票来扭曲选举。投资者提交的其他候选人通常会被单独投票。</blockquote> Business groups approve the status quo, calling it efficient and warning that a universal proxy card could lead to over-voting, more frequent disqualification of defective ballots and even shareholder confusion.<blockquote>商业团体认可现状，称其高效，并警告称通用代理卡可能会导致过度投票、更频繁地取消有缺陷选票的资格，甚至股东混乱。</blockquote> The new rule will put investors voting in person on an equal footing with those voting by proxy, said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.<blockquote>SEC主席加里·詹斯勒(Gary Gensler)表示，新规则将使亲自投票的投资者与代理投票的投资者处于平等地位。</blockquote> “It makes sense that shareholders should be able to see all the candidates in one place, just as they would in person. This is an important aspect of shareholder democracy,” he added.<blockquote>“股东应该能够在一个地方看到所有候选人，就像他们亲自看到一样，这是有道理的。这是股东民主的一个重要方面，”他补充道。</blockquote> Advocates welcomed the SEC’s decision.<blockquote>倡导者对SEC的决定表示欢迎。</blockquote> “This should be called the investor-choice rule,” said Amy Borrus, who leads the Washington-based Council of Institutional Investors. “This small but significant reform ensures that investors voting by proxy card - as the vast majority of institutional and individual investors do - can vote for whichever combination of director nominees they think best serves their interests.”<blockquote>“这应该被称为投资者选择规则，”总部位于华盛顿的机构投资者委员会负责人艾米·博鲁斯(Amy Borrus)表示。“这项虽小但意义重大的改革确保了通过代理卡投票的投资者——就像绝大多数机构和个人投资者一样——可以投票给他们认为最符合他们利益的任何董事提名组合。”</blockquote> An influential proxy adviser, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called the measure “a significant milestone” that ensures corporate elections are “fair, transparent, and efficient.”<blockquote>一位有影响力的代理顾问机构股东服务公司（ISS）称这项措施是“一个重要的里程碑”，可确保公司选举“公平、透明和高效”。</blockquote> Elad Roisman, a Republican commissioner, voted in favor of the measure but said he would have preferred that the rule require those launching a proxy contest to meet certain eligibility criteria, such as thresholds of ownership in the target company or holding periods for the company’s stock.<blockquote>共和党委员埃拉德·罗斯曼(Elad Roisman)投票赞成这项措施，但表示他更希望该规则要求发起代理权竞争的人满足某些资格标准，例如目标公司的所有权门槛或公司股票的持有期。</blockquote> “Such criteria would demonstrate that a dissident has an economic stake or investment interest in the target company.”<blockquote>“这样的标准将证明持不同政见者在目标公司中拥有经济利益或投资利益。”</blockquote> ADDITIONAL PROXY ADVISER MEASURE<blockquote>额外代理顾问措施</blockquote> The U.S. markets regulator also voted to propose a measure that requires enhanced disclosure and voting options in all corporate director elections.<blockquote>美国市场监管机构还投票提出了一项措施，要求在所有公司董事选举中加强披露和投票选项。</blockquote> Subject to public consultation before it can be adopted, the proposal would rescind a Trump-era rule that sought to restrict proxy advisory firms, which recommend to investors how to vote and cast ballots on behalf of some asset managers.<blockquote>在通过之前，该提案将废除特朗普时代试图限制代理咨询公司的规则，这些公司向投资者推荐如何投票以及代表一些资产管理公司投票。</blockquote> This SEC proposal would undo, among other previous restrictions, a condition that required proxy advisory firms to make their advice available to companies that are the subject of their advice at or before the meeting.<blockquote>除之前的其他限制外，美国证券交易委员会的这项提案将取消一项条件，该条件要求代理咨询公司在会议上或会议之前向其建议对象的公司提供其建议。</blockquote> On Wednesday, industry groups like the National Association of Manufacturers said they were “extremely concerned” that the SEC proposed revisions to a 2020 proxy rule “absent of any new information about its impact on the market.”<blockquote>周三，全国制造商协会等行业组织表示，他们“极其担心”SEC提议对2020年代理规则进行修订，“没有任何有关其对市场影响的新信息”。</blockquote> The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized the move as a sign the agency “is not serious about rooting out and eliminating misinformation and conflicts of interest in the proxy process.”<blockquote>强大的美国商会批评此举表明该机构“并不认真根除和消除代理过程中的错误信息和利益冲突”。</blockquote>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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The vast majority of corporate votes are cast remotely.<blockquote>与加拿大和澳大利亚等国家不同，美国的投资者无法从这些竞争名单中混合搭配，除非他们派代表亲自在年会上投票。绝大多数公司投票都是远程投票的。</blockquote> In 2016, two weeks before the election of former President Donald Trump, the securities regulator proposed an Obama-era reform that would have given shareholders in companies more freedom to vote for their preferred candidates during contested board elections.<blockquote>2016年，在前总统唐纳德·特朗普当选前两周，证券监管机构提出了奥巴马时代的改革，该改革将给予公司股东更多自由，在有争议的董事会选举中投票给他们喜欢的候选人。</blockquote> It was later shelved by the agency’s then Republican leadership, which cited a preference to loosening rules that it said deterred firms from going public.<blockquote>该法案后来被该机构当时的共和党领导层搁置，他们表示倾向于放松规则，称这些规则阻碍了公司上市。</blockquote> Wednesday’s rule requires “universal” proxy cards listing all duly nominated director candidates, effectively allowing shareholders to mix and match.<blockquote>周三的规则要求“通用”代理卡列出所有正式提名的董事候选人，实际上允许股东混合搭配。</blockquote> Investor advocates say the former system allowed corporate management to skew elections by proposing ballots with limited candidates whom they prefer. Other candidates submitted by investors are often relegated to separate ballots.<blockquote>投资者权益倡导者表示，以前的制度允许公司管理层通过向他们喜欢的有限候选人提议投票来扭曲选举。投资者提交的其他候选人通常会被单独投票。</blockquote> Business groups approve the status quo, calling it efficient and warning that a universal proxy card could lead to over-voting, more frequent disqualification of defective ballots and even shareholder confusion.<blockquote>商业团体认可现状，称其高效，并警告称通用代理卡可能会导致过度投票、更频繁地取消有缺陷选票的资格，甚至股东混乱。</blockquote> The new rule will put investors voting in person on an equal footing with those voting by proxy, said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.<blockquote>SEC主席加里·詹斯勒(Gary Gensler)表示，新规则将使亲自投票的投资者与代理投票的投资者处于平等地位。</blockquote> “It makes sense that shareholders should be able to see all the candidates in one place, just as they would in person. This is an important aspect of shareholder democracy,” he added.<blockquote>“股东应该能够在一个地方看到所有候选人，就像他们亲自看到一样，这是有道理的。这是股东民主的一个重要方面，”他补充道。</blockquote> Advocates welcomed the SEC’s decision.<blockquote>倡导者对SEC的决定表示欢迎。</blockquote> “This should be called the investor-choice rule,” said Amy Borrus, who leads the Washington-based Council of Institutional Investors. “This small but significant reform ensures that investors voting by proxy card - as the vast majority of institutional and individual investors do - can vote for whichever combination of director nominees they think best serves their interests.”<blockquote>“这应该被称为投资者选择规则，”总部位于华盛顿的机构投资者委员会负责人艾米·博鲁斯(Amy Borrus)表示。“这项虽小但意义重大的改革确保了通过代理卡投票的投资者——就像绝大多数机构和个人投资者一样——可以投票给他们认为最符合他们利益的任何董事提名组合。”</blockquote> An influential proxy adviser, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called the measure “a significant milestone” that ensures corporate elections are “fair, transparent, and efficient.”<blockquote>一位有影响力的代理顾问机构股东服务公司（ISS）称这项措施是“一个重要的里程碑”，可确保公司选举“公平、透明和高效”。</blockquote> Elad Roisman, a Republican commissioner, voted in favor of the measure but said he would have preferred that the rule require those launching a proxy contest to meet certain eligibility criteria, such as thresholds of ownership in the target company or holding periods for the company’s stock.<blockquote>共和党委员埃拉德·罗斯曼(Elad Roisman)投票赞成这项措施，但表示他更希望该规则要求发起代理权竞争的人满足某些资格标准，例如目标公司的所有权门槛或公司股票的持有期。</blockquote> “Such criteria would demonstrate that a dissident has an economic stake or investment interest in the target company.”<blockquote>“这样的标准将证明持不同政见者在目标公司中拥有经济利益或投资利益。”</blockquote> ADDITIONAL PROXY ADVISER MEASURE<blockquote>额外代理顾问措施</blockquote> The U.S. markets regulator also voted to propose a measure that requires enhanced disclosure and voting options in all corporate director elections.<blockquote>美国市场监管机构还投票提出了一项措施，要求在所有公司董事选举中加强披露和投票选项。</blockquote> Subject to public consultation before it can be adopted, the proposal would rescind a Trump-era rule that sought to restrict proxy advisory firms, which recommend to investors how to vote and cast ballots on behalf of some asset managers.<blockquote>在通过之前，该提案将废除特朗普时代试图限制代理咨询公司的规则，这些公司向投资者推荐如何投票以及代表一些资产管理公司投票。</blockquote> This SEC proposal would undo, among other previous restrictions, a condition that required proxy advisory firms to make their advice available to companies that are the subject of their advice at or before the meeting.<blockquote>除之前的其他限制外，美国证券交易委员会的这项提案将取消一项条件，该条件要求代理咨询公司在会议上或会议之前向其建议对象的公司提供其建议。</blockquote> On Wednesday, industry groups like the National Association of Manufacturers said they were “extremely concerned” that the SEC proposed revisions to a 2020 proxy rule “absent of any new information about its impact on the market.”<blockquote>周三，全国制造商协会等行业组织表示，他们“极其担心”SEC提议对2020年代理规则进行修订，“没有任何有关其对市场影响的新信息”。</blockquote> The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized the move as a sign the agency “is not serious about rooting out and eliminating misinformation and conflicts of interest in the proxy process.”<blockquote>强大的美国商会批评此举表明该机构“并不认真根除和消除代理过程中的错误信息和利益冲突”。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-sec-proxy/update-4-u-s-sec-allows-investors-to-cherry-pick-candidates-in-contested-corporate-elections-idUSL1N2S736C\">Reuters</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"道琼斯"},"source_url":"https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-sec-proxy/update-4-u-s-sec-allows-investors-to-cherry-pick-candidates-in-contested-corporate-elections-idUSL1N2S736C","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1150073500","content_text":"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday agreed to give investors who vote by proxy more freedom to choose their candidates during contested corporate board elections, as the agency’s Democratic leadership seeks to bolster shareholder rights.\nUntil now, shareholders who voted remotely in contested elections had to choose from a full slate of board directors nominated by the management or a competing set of nominees provided by an activist investor.\nThe five-commissioner panel voted 4-1 to adopt the new rule.\nUnlike in countries such as Canada and Australia, investors in the United States could not mix and match from these competing lists unless they sent a representative to vote in person at the annual meeting. The vast majority of corporate votes are cast remotely.\nIn 2016, two weeks before the election of former President Donald Trump, the securities regulator proposed an Obama-era reform that would have given shareholders in companies more freedom to vote for their preferred candidates during contested board elections.\nIt was later shelved by the agency’s then Republican leadership, which cited a preference to loosening rules that it said deterred firms from going public.\nWednesday’s rule requires “universal” proxy cards listing all duly nominated director candidates, effectively allowing shareholders to mix and match.\nInvestor advocates say the former system allowed corporate management to skew elections by proposing ballots with limited candidates whom they prefer. Other candidates submitted by investors are often relegated to separate ballots.\nBusiness groups approve the status quo, calling it efficient and warning that a universal proxy card could lead to over-voting, more frequent disqualification of defective ballots and even shareholder confusion.\nThe new rule will put investors voting in person on an equal footing with those voting by proxy, said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.\n“It makes sense that shareholders should be able to see all the candidates in one place, just as they would in person. This is an important aspect of shareholder democracy,” he added.\nAdvocates welcomed the SEC’s decision.\n“This should be called the investor-choice rule,” said Amy Borrus, who leads the Washington-based Council of Institutional Investors. “This small but significant reform ensures that investors voting by proxy card - as the vast majority of institutional and individual investors do - can vote for whichever combination of director nominees they think best serves their interests.”\nAn influential proxy adviser, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called the measure “a significant milestone” that ensures corporate elections are “fair, transparent, and efficient.”\nElad Roisman, a Republican commissioner, voted in favor of the measure but said he would have preferred that the rule require those launching a proxy contest to meet certain eligibility criteria, such as thresholds of ownership in the target company or holding periods for the company’s stock.\n“Such criteria would demonstrate that a dissident has an economic stake or investment interest in the target company.”\nADDITIONAL PROXY ADVISER MEASURE\nThe U.S. markets regulator also voted to propose a measure that requires enhanced disclosure and voting options in all corporate director elections.\nSubject to public consultation before it can be adopted, the proposal would rescind a Trump-era rule that sought to restrict proxy advisory firms, which recommend to investors how to vote and cast ballots on behalf of some asset managers.\nThis SEC proposal would undo, among other previous restrictions, a condition that required proxy advisory firms to make their advice available to companies that are the subject of their advice at or before the meeting.\nOn Wednesday, industry groups like the National Association of Manufacturers said they were “extremely concerned” that the SEC proposed revisions to a 2020 proxy rule “absent of any new information about its impact on the market.”\nThe powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized the move as a sign the agency “is not serious about rooting out and eliminating misinformation and conflicts of interest in the proxy process.”","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{".DJI":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6621086,"gmtCreate":1637192988114,"gmtModify":1637192988141,"authorId":4095547949553810,"author":{"id":4095547949553810,"idStr":"4095547949553810","authorId":4095547949553810,"name":"Jay88","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a2a8c91b2081859f5b526f88c16cc73a","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[],"wearingBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":878648579,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"ok","text":"ok","html":"ok"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":878649797,"gmtCreate":1637192795019,"gmtModify":1637192803759,"author":{"id":"3583750403365476","authorId":"3583750403365476","name":"gov","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e50e768a875518adb25631ba4c32578f","vip":1,"crmLevel":11,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"wearingBadges":[],"idStr":"3583750403365476","authorIdStr":"3583750403365476"},"htmlText":"Like it","listText":"Like it","text":"Like it","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":7,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/878649797","repostId":1150073500,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1150073500","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1637192664,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1150073500?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-11-18 07:44","market":"us","language":"en","title":"U.S. SEC allows investors to cherry-pick candidates in contested corporate elections<blockquote>美国证券交易委员会允许投资者在有争议的公司选举中挑选候选人</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1150073500","media":"Reuters","summary":"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday agreed to give","content":"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday agreed to give investors who vote by proxy more freedom to choose their candidates during contested corporate board elections, as the agency’s Democratic leadership seeks to bolster shareholder rights.<blockquote>华盛顿（路透社）-美国证券交易委员会（SEC）周三同意在有争议的公司董事会选举中给予通过代理投票的投资者更多选择候选人的自由，因为该机构的民主党领导层寻求加强股东权利。</blockquote> Until now, shareholders who voted remotely in contested elections had to choose from a full slate of board directors nominated by the management or a competing set of nominees provided by an activist investor.<blockquote>到目前为止，在有争议的选举中远程投票的股东必须从管理层提名的全部董事会董事名单或激进投资者提供的一组竞争性提名人中进行选择。</blockquote> The five-commissioner panel voted 4-1 to adopt the new rule.<blockquote>五人小组以4比1的投票结果通过了新规则。</blockquote> Unlike in countries such as Canada and Australia, investors in the United States could not mix and match from these competing lists unless they sent a representative to vote in person at the annual meeting. The vast majority of corporate votes are cast remotely.<blockquote>与加拿大和澳大利亚等国家不同，美国的投资者无法从这些竞争名单中混合搭配，除非他们派代表亲自在年会上投票。绝大多数公司投票都是远程投票的。</blockquote> In 2016, two weeks before the election of former President Donald Trump, the securities regulator proposed an Obama-era reform that would have given shareholders in companies more freedom to vote for their preferred candidates during contested board elections.<blockquote>2016年，在前总统唐纳德·特朗普当选前两周，证券监管机构提出了奥巴马时代的改革，该改革将给予公司股东更多自由，在有争议的董事会选举中投票给他们喜欢的候选人。</blockquote> It was later shelved by the agency’s then Republican leadership, which cited a preference to loosening rules that it said deterred firms from going public.<blockquote>该法案后来被该机构当时的共和党领导层搁置，他们表示倾向于放松规则，称这些规则阻碍了公司上市。</blockquote> Wednesday’s rule requires “universal” proxy cards listing all duly nominated director candidates, effectively allowing shareholders to mix and match.<blockquote>周三的规则要求“通用”代理卡列出所有正式提名的董事候选人，实际上允许股东混合搭配。</blockquote> Investor advocates say the former system allowed corporate management to skew elections by proposing ballots with limited candidates whom they prefer. Other candidates submitted by investors are often relegated to separate ballots.<blockquote>投资者权益倡导者表示，以前的制度允许公司管理层通过向他们喜欢的有限候选人提议投票来扭曲选举。投资者提交的其他候选人通常会被单独投票。</blockquote> Business groups approve the status quo, calling it efficient and warning that a universal proxy card could lead to over-voting, more frequent disqualification of defective ballots and even shareholder confusion.<blockquote>商业团体认可现状，称其高效，并警告称通用代理卡可能会导致过度投票、更频繁地取消有缺陷选票的资格，甚至股东混乱。</blockquote> The new rule will put investors voting in person on an equal footing with those voting by proxy, said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.<blockquote>SEC主席加里·詹斯勒(Gary Gensler)表示，新规则将使亲自投票的投资者与代理投票的投资者处于平等地位。</blockquote> “It makes sense that shareholders should be able to see all the candidates in one place, just as they would in person. This is an important aspect of shareholder democracy,” he added.<blockquote>“股东应该能够在一个地方看到所有候选人，就像他们亲自看到一样，这是有道理的。这是股东民主的一个重要方面，”他补充道。</blockquote> Advocates welcomed the SEC’s decision.<blockquote>倡导者对SEC的决定表示欢迎。</blockquote> “This should be called the investor-choice rule,” said Amy Borrus, who leads the Washington-based Council of Institutional Investors. “This small but significant reform ensures that investors voting by proxy card - as the vast majority of institutional and individual investors do - can vote for whichever combination of director nominees they think best serves their interests.”<blockquote>“这应该被称为投资者选择规则，”总部位于华盛顿的机构投资者委员会负责人艾米·博鲁斯(Amy Borrus)表示。“这项虽小但意义重大的改革确保了通过代理卡投票的投资者——就像绝大多数机构和个人投资者一样——可以投票给他们认为最符合他们利益的任何董事提名组合。”</blockquote> An influential proxy adviser, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called the measure “a significant milestone” that ensures corporate elections are “fair, transparent, and efficient.”<blockquote>一位有影响力的代理顾问机构股东服务公司（ISS）称这项措施是“一个重要的里程碑”，可确保公司选举“公平、透明和高效”。</blockquote> Elad Roisman, a Republican commissioner, voted in favor of the measure but said he would have preferred that the rule require those launching a proxy contest to meet certain eligibility criteria, such as thresholds of ownership in the target company or holding periods for the company’s stock.<blockquote>共和党委员埃拉德·罗斯曼(Elad Roisman)投票赞成这项措施，但表示他更希望该规则要求发起代理权竞争的人满足某些资格标准，例如目标公司的所有权门槛或公司股票的持有期。</blockquote> “Such criteria would demonstrate that a dissident has an economic stake or investment interest in the target company.”<blockquote>“这样的标准将证明持不同政见者在目标公司中拥有经济利益或投资利益。”</blockquote> ADDITIONAL PROXY ADVISER MEASURE<blockquote>额外代理顾问措施</blockquote> The U.S. markets regulator also voted to propose a measure that requires enhanced disclosure and voting options in all corporate director elections.<blockquote>美国市场监管机构还投票提出了一项措施，要求在所有公司董事选举中加强披露和投票选项。</blockquote> Subject to public consultation before it can be adopted, the proposal would rescind a Trump-era rule that sought to restrict proxy advisory firms, which recommend to investors how to vote and cast ballots on behalf of some asset managers.<blockquote>在通过之前，该提案将废除特朗普时代试图限制代理咨询公司的规则，这些公司向投资者推荐如何投票以及代表一些资产管理公司投票。</blockquote> This SEC proposal would undo, among other previous restrictions, a condition that required proxy advisory firms to make their advice available to companies that are the subject of their advice at or before the meeting.<blockquote>除之前的其他限制外，美国证券交易委员会的这项提案将取消一项条件，该条件要求代理咨询公司在会议上或会议之前向其建议对象的公司提供其建议。</blockquote> On Wednesday, industry groups like the National Association of Manufacturers said they were “extremely concerned” that the SEC proposed revisions to a 2020 proxy rule “absent of any new information about its impact on the market.”<blockquote>周三，全国制造商协会等行业组织表示，他们“极其担心”SEC提议对2020年代理规则进行修订，“没有任何有关其对市场影响的新信息”。</blockquote> The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized the move as a sign the agency “is not serious about rooting out and eliminating misinformation and conflicts of interest in the proxy process.”<blockquote>强大的美国商会批评此举表明该机构“并不认真根除和消除代理过程中的错误信息和利益冲突”。</blockquote>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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The vast majority of corporate votes are cast remotely.<blockquote>与加拿大和澳大利亚等国家不同，美国的投资者无法从这些竞争名单中混合搭配，除非他们派代表亲自在年会上投票。绝大多数公司投票都是远程投票的。</blockquote> In 2016, two weeks before the election of former President Donald Trump, the securities regulator proposed an Obama-era reform that would have given shareholders in companies more freedom to vote for their preferred candidates during contested board elections.<blockquote>2016年，在前总统唐纳德·特朗普当选前两周，证券监管机构提出了奥巴马时代的改革，该改革将给予公司股东更多自由，在有争议的董事会选举中投票给他们喜欢的候选人。</blockquote> It was later shelved by the agency’s then Republican leadership, which cited a preference to loosening rules that it said deterred firms from going public.<blockquote>该法案后来被该机构当时的共和党领导层搁置，他们表示倾向于放松规则，称这些规则阻碍了公司上市。</blockquote> Wednesday’s rule requires “universal” proxy cards listing all duly nominated director candidates, effectively allowing shareholders to mix and match.<blockquote>周三的规则要求“通用”代理卡列出所有正式提名的董事候选人，实际上允许股东混合搭配。</blockquote> Investor advocates say the former system allowed corporate management to skew elections by proposing ballots with limited candidates whom they prefer. Other candidates submitted by investors are often relegated to separate ballots.<blockquote>投资者权益倡导者表示，以前的制度允许公司管理层通过向他们喜欢的有限候选人提议投票来扭曲选举。投资者提交的其他候选人通常会被单独投票。</blockquote> Business groups approve the status quo, calling it efficient and warning that a universal proxy card could lead to over-voting, more frequent disqualification of defective ballots and even shareholder confusion.<blockquote>商业团体认可现状，称其高效，并警告称通用代理卡可能会导致过度投票、更频繁地取消有缺陷选票的资格，甚至股东混乱。</blockquote> The new rule will put investors voting in person on an equal footing with those voting by proxy, said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.<blockquote>SEC主席加里·詹斯勒(Gary Gensler)表示，新规则将使亲自投票的投资者与代理投票的投资者处于平等地位。</blockquote> “It makes sense that shareholders should be able to see all the candidates in one place, just as they would in person. This is an important aspect of shareholder democracy,” he added.<blockquote>“股东应该能够在一个地方看到所有候选人，就像他们亲自看到一样，这是有道理的。这是股东民主的一个重要方面，”他补充道。</blockquote> Advocates welcomed the SEC’s decision.<blockquote>倡导者对SEC的决定表示欢迎。</blockquote> “This should be called the investor-choice rule,” said Amy Borrus, who leads the Washington-based Council of Institutional Investors. “This small but significant reform ensures that investors voting by proxy card - as the vast majority of institutional and individual investors do - can vote for whichever combination of director nominees they think best serves their interests.”<blockquote>“这应该被称为投资者选择规则，”总部位于华盛顿的机构投资者委员会负责人艾米·博鲁斯(Amy Borrus)表示。“这项虽小但意义重大的改革确保了通过代理卡投票的投资者——就像绝大多数机构和个人投资者一样——可以投票给他们认为最符合他们利益的任何董事提名组合。”</blockquote> An influential proxy adviser, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called the measure “a significant milestone” that ensures corporate elections are “fair, transparent, and efficient.”<blockquote>一位有影响力的代理顾问机构股东服务公司（ISS）称这项措施是“一个重要的里程碑”，可确保公司选举“公平、透明和高效”。</blockquote> Elad Roisman, a Republican commissioner, voted in favor of the measure but said he would have preferred that the rule require those launching a proxy contest to meet certain eligibility criteria, such as thresholds of ownership in the target company or holding periods for the company’s stock.<blockquote>共和党委员埃拉德·罗斯曼(Elad Roisman)投票赞成这项措施，但表示他更希望该规则要求发起代理权竞争的人满足某些资格标准，例如目标公司的所有权门槛或公司股票的持有期。</blockquote> “Such criteria would demonstrate that a dissident has an economic stake or investment interest in the target company.”<blockquote>“这样的标准将证明持不同政见者在目标公司中拥有经济利益或投资利益。”</blockquote> ADDITIONAL PROXY ADVISER MEASURE<blockquote>额外代理顾问措施</blockquote> The U.S. markets regulator also voted to propose a measure that requires enhanced disclosure and voting options in all corporate director elections.<blockquote>美国市场监管机构还投票提出了一项措施，要求在所有公司董事选举中加强披露和投票选项。</blockquote> Subject to public consultation before it can be adopted, the proposal would rescind a Trump-era rule that sought to restrict proxy advisory firms, which recommend to investors how to vote and cast ballots on behalf of some asset managers.<blockquote>在通过之前，该提案将废除特朗普时代试图限制代理咨询公司的规则，这些公司向投资者推荐如何投票以及代表一些资产管理公司投票。</blockquote> This SEC proposal would undo, among other previous restrictions, a condition that required proxy advisory firms to make their advice available to companies that are the subject of their advice at or before the meeting.<blockquote>除之前的其他限制外，美国证券交易委员会的这项提案将取消一项条件，该条件要求代理咨询公司在会议上或会议之前向其建议对象的公司提供其建议。</blockquote> On Wednesday, industry groups like the National Association of Manufacturers said they were “extremely concerned” that the SEC proposed revisions to a 2020 proxy rule “absent of any new information about its impact on the market.”<blockquote>周三，全国制造商协会等行业组织表示，他们“极其担心”SEC提议对2020年代理规则进行修订，“没有任何有关其对市场影响的新信息”。</blockquote> The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized the move as a sign the agency “is not serious about rooting out and eliminating misinformation and conflicts of interest in the proxy process.”<blockquote>强大的美国商会批评此举表明该机构“并不认真根除和消除代理过程中的错误信息和利益冲突”。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-sec-proxy/update-4-u-s-sec-allows-investors-to-cherry-pick-candidates-in-contested-corporate-elections-idUSL1N2S736C\">Reuters</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"道琼斯"},"source_url":"https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-sec-proxy/update-4-u-s-sec-allows-investors-to-cherry-pick-candidates-in-contested-corporate-elections-idUSL1N2S736C","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1150073500","content_text":"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday agreed to give investors who vote by proxy more freedom to choose their candidates during contested corporate board elections, as the agency’s Democratic leadership seeks to bolster shareholder rights.\nUntil now, shareholders who voted remotely in contested elections had to choose from a full slate of board directors nominated by the management or a competing set of nominees provided by an activist investor.\nThe five-commissioner panel voted 4-1 to adopt the new rule.\nUnlike in countries such as Canada and Australia, investors in the United States could not mix and match from these competing lists unless they sent a representative to vote in person at the annual meeting. The vast majority of corporate votes are cast remotely.\nIn 2016, two weeks before the election of former President Donald Trump, the securities regulator proposed an Obama-era reform that would have given shareholders in companies more freedom to vote for their preferred candidates during contested board elections.\nIt was later shelved by the agency’s then Republican leadership, which cited a preference to loosening rules that it said deterred firms from going public.\nWednesday’s rule requires “universal” proxy cards listing all duly nominated director candidates, effectively allowing shareholders to mix and match.\nInvestor advocates say the former system allowed corporate management to skew elections by proposing ballots with limited candidates whom they prefer. Other candidates submitted by investors are often relegated to separate ballots.\nBusiness groups approve the status quo, calling it efficient and warning that a universal proxy card could lead to over-voting, more frequent disqualification of defective ballots and even shareholder confusion.\nThe new rule will put investors voting in person on an equal footing with those voting by proxy, said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.\n“It makes sense that shareholders should be able to see all the candidates in one place, just as they would in person. This is an important aspect of shareholder democracy,” he added.\nAdvocates welcomed the SEC’s decision.\n“This should be called the investor-choice rule,” said Amy Borrus, who leads the Washington-based Council of Institutional Investors. “This small but significant reform ensures that investors voting by proxy card - as the vast majority of institutional and individual investors do - can vote for whichever combination of director nominees they think best serves their interests.”\nAn influential proxy adviser, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called the measure “a significant milestone” that ensures corporate elections are “fair, transparent, and efficient.”\nElad Roisman, a Republican commissioner, voted in favor of the measure but said he would have preferred that the rule require those launching a proxy contest to meet certain eligibility criteria, such as thresholds of ownership in the target company or holding periods for the company’s stock.\n“Such criteria would demonstrate that a dissident has an economic stake or investment interest in the target company.”\nADDITIONAL PROXY ADVISER MEASURE\nThe U.S. markets regulator also voted to propose a measure that requires enhanced disclosure and voting options in all corporate director elections.\nSubject to public consultation before it can be adopted, the proposal would rescind a Trump-era rule that sought to restrict proxy advisory firms, which recommend to investors how to vote and cast ballots on behalf of some asset managers.\nThis SEC proposal would undo, among other previous restrictions, a condition that required proxy advisory firms to make their advice available to companies that are the subject of their advice at or before the meeting.\nOn Wednesday, industry groups like the National Association of Manufacturers said they were “extremely concerned” that the SEC proposed revisions to a 2020 proxy rule “absent of any new information about its impact on the market.”\nThe powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce criticized the move as a sign the agency “is not serious about rooting out and eliminating misinformation and conflicts of interest in the proxy process.”","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{".DJI":0.9}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":38,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":false,"tenantId":"TBCN","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.42.0","shortVersion":"4.42.0","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"laohu8","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1150073500","isCrawlerRequest":true}