Tag archives: S&P 500

Non-standard accounting measures: The media, regulators, and shareholders zero in

By Linda Fuerst, Orestes Pasparakis, Walied Soliman and Heidi Reinhart on September 29, 2016 Posted in Securities

Non-standard accounting practices have been gaining in popularity among Canadian publicly traded companies. Issuers that rely solely on standard accounting metrics now make up a small minority of the companies listed in the S&P 500 and S&P/TSX 60. Many issuers believe that non-standard measures are a better reflection of performance than Generally Accepted Accounting Principles … Continue reading

Majority voting and board diversity trends

By Jenny Yoo on August 17, 2016 Posted in Corporate Governance

As recently highlighted in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, a report (the Report) by Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) found that majority voting practices and annual board elections, along with increases in board diversity, are the new norm. The Report examined the public filings of Standard & Poor’s U.S. “Super … Continue reading