CII Advocacy Priorities
CII’s priority issues for advocacy for 2024 generally fall into three categories and are grounded in CII member-approved policies.
Investor Rights & Protections:
- Voting rights in proportion to equity & time-based “sunset” provisions for dual-class stock
- Ensuring that investors have independent proxy research
- Right of shareholders to express their voice via proposals
- Ensuring the right to recover losses under Section 11
- Gaps between ownership and control of dual-class stock companies
- Transparency of executive compensation
- Climate risk metrics
- Diversity of the boards and executive officers
- Key workforce metrics
- Enhanced transparency of share buybacks
- End-to-end vote confirmation
- Index provider transparency
- Stock exchange operations and governance