The SEC Division of Investment Management declined a request to take a no-action position from a registered investment company that sought to exclude proxy materials on a shareholder proposal to "declassify" the Fund's Board.
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The SEC updated its Proxy Rules and Schedule 14A Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations and the 1999 Supplement. The SEC said that it is continuing a process of updating broader "Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations" relating to the proxy rules.
The SEC Division of Corporation Finance changed its intake procedures for issuers requesting "informal, non-binding staff views regarding companies' intentions to exclude shareholder proposals from their proxy statements."
The OCC, the Federal Reserve Board and the FDIC proposed long-term debt requirements for large banking entities, holding companies, foreign banking organizations and large insured depository institutions to facilitate resolvability in the event of failure and to reduce the risk of contagion within the financial system.
The House Financial Services Committee considered testimony on the impact of ESG proxy proposals and recommendations to reform the shareholder proposal process.