NEW YORK -- The
Council of Institutional Investors have released a report by Farient Advisors, a leading independent executive compensation and performance consulting firm, analyzing investor motivations to vote against "say on pay" at companies where the proposal failed to receive majority support at 2011 annual meetings.
Rutherford is a member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals, the
Council of Institutional Investors and the Advisory Board of the University of Delaware Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance.
His distinguished service in corporate governance includes cofounding the International Corporate Governance Network, chairing the executive committee of the
Council of Institutional Investors, and cofounding GovernanceMetrics International, the global corporate governance rating service, for which he invented its rating algorithm.
Obama and his Democratic cohorts running Congress are much more likely to listen to traditional Democratic constituencies such as the
Council of Institutional Investors and the Consumers Federation of America.
TESLIK Executive Director
Council of Institutional InvestorsThe Foundation is an active investor, a long-time member of the
Council of Institutional Investors and a co-founder of the United Nation's Principles for Responsible Investment.
She is a former co-chair of the
Council of Institutional Investors and currently co-chairs the Council's International Governance Committee.
The
Council of Institutional Investors and the CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity (an organization representing 90,000 investment professionals in 134 countries) recently met with staff of the SEC's Office of the Chief Accountant (OCA) and requested that the OCA prohibit Zions and all other public companies from using Zions' ESOARS to value stock option awards under Statement 123R unless and until the fundamental failings of the product have been remedied.
It would also require corporate plan sponsors to coordinate their efforts in much the same way that public pension funds organzied the
Council of Institutional Investors in 1985 to focus their activities in the corporate governance area.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of the
Council of Institutional Investors and is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Spearheaded by the Business Roundtable (BRT) and the
Council of Institutional Investors (CII), this working group of leaders and advocates from business, Wall Street, pension management, and labor had been working for close to a year to identify the factors leading to short-termism, as well as the most promising strategies for reintroducing long-term bias and returning greater balance to capital markets.
The state funds and groups like the
Council of Institutional Investors (CII) believe there is a quid pro quo going on where the consultants recommend higher pay in the hopes of getting lucrative consulting contracts.
