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Corporate Governance: In the News - Articles of Interest

• SEC Chief Wants Smaller Investors to Have Better, Faster Stock Data - WSJ, March 8, 2019
• Norway’s Sovereign-Wealth Fund Moves Toward Divesting From Oil, Gas Stocks - WSJ, March 8, 2019
• LaCroix maker tanks after bizarre CEO comments. Guggenheim cuts to sell - CNBC, March 8, 2019
• Asset managers back more climate proposals, Ceres finds | Corporate Secretary, March 8, 2019
• Executive Accountability for Internal Cybersecurity Disclosure - Corporate Compliance Insights, March 8, 2019
• GE Says Two Longest-Serving Directors Are Leaving - WSJ, March 8, 2019
• Boardroom Battles Ahead Over Resolutions Seeking Median Pay Equity for Women | Corporate Counsel, March 7, 2019
• For Women Seeking Corporate Board Positions, It’s Still an Uphill Climb | Comstock's magazine, March 7, 2019
• Activist Takes Aim at Shale-Company CEO’s Pay - WSJ, March 7, 2019
• Africa and North America best for female representation and leadership, says expert | IR Magazine, March 7, 2019
• Disney Shareholders Support Company in Say-on-Pay Vote - WSJ, March 7, 2019
• Exclusive: Yelp averts board challenge as SQN endorses changes | Reuters, March 7, 2019
• Consumer-Finance Watchdog: Companies Have Role in Policing Themselves - WSJ, March 7, 2019
• Exclusive: SEC scrutinizes fairness of stock exchange pricing | Reuters, March 7, 2019
• No-Deal Brexit Could Spur U.K. Goodwill Impairments - WSJ, March 7, 2019
• SEC’s Peirce tackles CII on arb and shareholder proposals | Corporate Secretary, March 7, 2019
• Senate panel accuses Equifax of neglecting cybersecurity ahead of 2017 breach | TheHill, March 7, 2019
• Equifax CEO testifies company took security seriously before its massive breach in response to scathing Senate report - CNBC, March 7, 2019
• SEC throws sand in ESG investors' wheels | ZAWYA UAE Edition, March 6, 2019
• 'Be honest' about U.S. gender pay gap, investors tell firms - Thomson Reuters, March 6, 2019
• Regulators Consider Banker Pay Limits As Bonuses Hit Post-Crisis Highs | Zero Hedge, March 6, 2019
• Investors Welcome JPMC Decision to Withdraw from Private Prisons | ICCR, March 5, 2019
• JPMorgan Ends Financing of Private Prisons Following Criticism - Bloomberg, March 5, 2019
• SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce cautions about push for diversity disclosure - Pensions & Investments, March 5, 2019
• Australia Is Pushing for More Women in Boardrooms - Bloomberg, March 5, 2019
• Apple Shareholders Overwhelmingly Vote against Proposal to Make Apple More Conservative - The Mac Observer, March 1, 2019