"Forecast for 2009 Proxy Season: Wild and Woolly"

Monday, January 12, 2009

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

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High levels of "withheld" votes against directors. Lots of majority votes on shareholder proposals. The 2008 proxy season campaign was pretty wild - and the outlook for this year is "even wilder." This webcast will recap what transpired during the 2008 proxy season - and predict what to expect for this proxy season as well as offer strategies from the proxy season expert. Join:

Pat McGurn, Special Counsel, RiskMetrics' ISS Division

Among the topics of this program are:

What will be the hot topics for investors in 2009? How do they differ from what was hot last season?
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' ISS Division in its upcoming 2009 voting guidelines?

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