2010 Draft Policies for Comment
RiskMetrics' Global Policy Board invites financial market participants to provide feedback on the following important corporate governance issues, which represented some of the policy changes under consideration for 2010.
To submit a comment, please send to policy@riskmetrics.com. Please indicate your name and organization for attribution. While RiskMetrics will consider all feedback that it receives, comments will not be published without attribution.
All comments received will be published as received, unless otherwise requested in the body of the e-mail submission.
Deadline for Comments is November 11, 2009
Draft Policies for Comment
Board
Adoption or Renewal of Non-Shareholder Approved Pills (US)
Director Independence (US)
Overboarding (Europe)
Materiality Test of Independence (Europe)
Slate Ballots (Canada)
Director Elections (Japan)
Compensation
Long-Term Pay for Performance Alignment (US)
Pay Riskiness (US)
Capital/Organization
Authority to Reduce Minimum Notice Period (Europe)
Share Repurchase (Europe)
Comments Received
| Attachment | Size |
| 2009-01 - John W. Taylor, Tiarta LLC | 4.46 KB |
| 2009-02 - Susy Monteiro, Georgeson | 180.33 KB |
| 2009-03 - Carol Vanairsdale, The PMI Group | 37.53 KB |
| 2009-04 - Vegard Torsnes, Norges Bank Investment Management | 181.59 KB |
| 2009-05 - Rob Bellhouse, Lonmin Plc | 69.4 KB |
| 2009-06 - Donna Anderson and Darrell Braman, T. Rowe Price | 44.84 KB |
| 2009-07 - Tim Ward, Quoted Companies Alliance | 168.15 KB |
| 2009-08 - Vanessa Knapp, Freshfields Brukhaus Deringer LLP | 34.39 KB |
| 2009-09 - Paul Emerton, Schroder Investment Management | 25.97 KB |
| 2009-10 - Andy Banks, Legal & General investment Management | 4.89 KB |
| 2009-11 - Justin Levis, Council of Institutional Investors | 69.27 KB |
| 2009-12 - Jennifer Heller, Comcast Corporation | 63.46 KB |
| 2009-13 - Alan Scott, BT | 164.13 KB |
| 2009-14 - Anne C Fraser, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership | 6.25 KB |
| 2009-15 - Alison Kennedy, Standard Life Investments | 15.96 KB |
| 2009-16 - Mark Wearden, Capita Registrars | 55.88 KB |
| 2009-17 - Bridget Salaman, ICSA | 179.24 KB |
| 2009-18 - Matthew Whyte, Rio Tinto | 45.07 KB |
| 2009-19 - Susan Henderson, Smith & Nephew plc | 33.66 KB |
| 2009-20 - Claire Davies, Lloyds Banking Group plc | 6.65 KB |
| 2009-21 - Joana Arin, Capital Group | 46.9 KB |
| 2009-22 - David Swinford and Yvonne Chen, Pearl Meyer & Partners | 61.22 KB |
| 2009-23 - Peter Swabey, Equinti Ltd | 34.77 KB |
| 2009-24 - Rob Beale, Capital Group | 40.6 KB |
| 2009-25 - Clive Edrupt, CBI | 252.03 KB |
| 2009-26 - Philip Larrieu, CalSTRS | 38.07 KB |
| 2009-27 - Douglas K. Chia, Johnson & Johnson | 47.67 KB |
| 2009-28 - Kwanza R. Butler, TimeWarner | 57.3 KB |
| 2009-29 - Richard Ufland, Company Law Committee | 4.88 KB |
| 2009-30 - Kirsty Cooper, Aviva plc | 5.29 KB |
| 2009-31 - Timothy J. Bartl, Center on Executive Compensation | 47.63 KB |
| 2009-32 - Wendy Hilburn, Frederic W. Cook & Co. | 40.9 KB |
| 2009-33 - David T. Hirschmann - United States Chamber of Commerce | 175.08 KB |
| 2009-34 - Brian P. Lynch, Callaway Golf | 191.87 KB |
| 2009-35 - City of London Law Firms | 68.32 KB |