On September 15, 2025, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued no-action relief to ExxonMobil (Exxon) regarding the company’s retail voting program in response to a request letter submitted ...

Importance of the Retail Shareholder Vote According to Broadridge, retail shareholders owned 31.7% of outstanding shares during the 2024 proxy season, while only 29.8% of those shares were actually ...

On September 15, 2025, the Division of Corporation Finance (“CorpFin”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a no-action response saying it will not recommend enforcement under ...

Every spring, public companies go through a carefully choreographed ritual of finalizing proxy statements, sending them out to shareholders, and waiting for individual and institutional owners to vote ...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has paved the way for US supermajor ExxonMobil to establish a shareholder voting programme that lets retail investors automatically cast ballots in line ...

Exxon Mobil (XOM) said proxy advisory firms Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services have a conflict of interest in recommending that investors vote against the oil company's plan to ...

Exxon XOM-2.08%decrease; down pointing triangle Mobil is striking back at two proxy advisory firms opposed to the company’s plan to move its legal home to Texas from New Jersey, its latest clash over ...

Regulators took on proxy voting in 2025, amid concerns that proxy advisors and large index investors are increasingly opposing management objectives. But our latest research on voting trends by the ...