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COMMENTARY: Senate Banking Hearing with SEC Chairman Must Address Proxy Advisory Firms

December 16, 2019 | Ken Blackwell

This article originally appeared in Morning Consult on December 10th, 2019. On Dec. 10, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs will hold an oversight hearing on the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among all of the SEC’s priorities, the Senate Banking Committee should raise the topic of proxy advisory reform. With the public […]

COMMENTARY: Take Politics Out Of Public Pension Plans

November 14, 2019 | Christopher Burnham

This op-ed originally appeared in Forbes on November 4th, 2019. Ahead of the Great Recession of 2008-2009, housing prices were increasing by about 5% every year between 1998 and 2006. Yet major publications and almost all pundits missed the signs of impending disaster. More than seven million Americans lost their homes and millions more lost […]

COMMENTARY: Safeguarding the pensions of public employees; With proxy reforms the SEC takes a first step in improving the health of U.S. pension funds

October 16, 2019 | Ken Blackwell

This op-ed originally appeared in The Washington Times on October 8th, 2019. Nearly a year after it held a roundtable on the topic, the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 21 issued “an interpretation that proxy voting advice provided by proxy advisory firms generally constitutes a ‘solicitation’ under the federal proxy rules.” This is a […]