On Wednesday, February 18, ICCR, the Shareholder Rights Group, and As You Sow sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission requesting that the Staff refrain from applying the guidance provided in Staff Legal Bulletin 14M to any shareholder proposals filed with companies prior to the issuance of the bulletin on February 12, 2025.
The SEC’s recent announcement that the agency will be stepping back from responding to most No Action requests by companies this year is disturbing and disappointing. SEC leadership appears to be using the excuse of the government shutdown to give companies an open invitation to exclude any or all shareholder proposals from their proxies for […]
Shareholder Rights and SEC Policy
NEW YORK, NY, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2025 – Today, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of over 300 institutional investors who, for more than 50 years, have been leaders in faith-consistent and sustainable investing, issued a statement in defense of this practice as a question of religious freedom protected under the U.S. […]
Shareholder Rights and SEC Policy
