Engaging Shareholders in Active Ownership

The long-term health of pension plans, and the retirement security of participants and families who rely upon them, are threatened by conflicts of interest on Wall Street and in the boardroom, a corporate backlash that seeks to weaken the accountability of executives to shareholders, and outright corporate fraud.  Advisory groups who are not named as fiduciaries for pension funds have cropped up to help the share.  CtW Investment organized a vote against excessive compensation for the executives of Chipotle and won.  Yet this may be a pyrrhic victory because the Board does not have to abide by the vote.

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