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Here are the results from our recent survey on shareholder engagement:

1. Before our annual meeting, our company actively seeks engagement with this number of institutional shareholders:
– More than 50 – 0%
– 26-50 – 12%
– 21-25 – 12%
– 10-20 – 12%
– 6-10 – 24%
– 1-5 – 6%
– None – 36%

2. Before our annual meeting, our company has actual engagement with this number of institutional shareholders:
– More than 50 – 0%
– 26-50 – 6%
– 21-25 – 0%
– 10-20 – 12%
– 6-10 – 24%
– 1-5 – 29%
– None – 29%

3. Before our annual meeting, our company typically receives unsolicited requests from this number of institutional investors:
– More than 5 – 0%
– 3-5 – 6%
– 1-2 – 24%
– None – 71%

4. If we receive unsolicited requests from institutional investors for engagement, our company:
– Always will engage with those investors – 60%
– Will engage some of the time with those investors – 33%
– Never will engage with those investors – 7%

Take a moment for our “Quick Survey on Separating 401(k) SPD & Prospectus” and “Quick Survey on End-User Exception for Swaps.”

Effective Board Diversity Change: Start with Baby Steps

In this podcast, Sylvia Groves of Governance Studio describes her efforts to diversify boards, including:

– Why do you think a diversity problem still exists in the boardroom?
– What is your “Diversity One Policy” idea?
– How is that better than “pink quotas”?
– How would your idea work in practice?

Mailed: January-February Issue of “The Corporate Executive”

We have mailed the January-February Issue of The Corporate Executive, and it includes pieces on:

– A Heads Up: IRS Comments on Excess Withholding
– Automatic Exercise at Expiration: Has the Time Come?
– Option Expiring When the Market Is Closed

Act Now: Get this issue rushed to when you try a 2013 No-Risk Trial to The Corporate Executive.

– Broc Romanek