"Forecast for 2008 Proxy Season: Wild and Woolly"

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

2:00 - 2:45 pm, eastern [archive and transcript to follow]

Course Materials

Corporate Governance Bulletin - RiskMetrics

High levels of "withheld" votes against directors. Lots of majority votes on shareholder proposals. The 2007 proxy season campaign was pretty wild - and the outlook for next year is "more of the same." This webcast will recap what transpired during the 2007 proxy season - and predict what to expect for this proxy season as well as offer strategies from the proxy season expert. Join:

• Pat McGurn, Executive Vice President and Special Counsel, RiskMetrics (formerly Institutional Shareholder Services)

Among the topics of this program are:

• What will be the hot topics for investors in 2008? How do they differ from what was hot this year?
• What changes in governance policies should companies now consider as broker votes may well be gone in 2009?
• What new positions were taken by RiskMetrics in their upcoming 2008 voting guidelines?

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