n a historic move that would significantly suppress shareholders’ collective voices, the SEC September 16 issued proposed rules to rescind Rule 14a-8, the rule regulating inclusion of shareholder proposals in companies’ proxy materials that was implemented in 1942.

Former SEC Chair Gary Gensler will deliver a keynote luncheon address at CII’s fall conference in Boston on Thursday, October 1, at 12:30 PM ET.

ISS is pushing back against a subpoena that the SEC sent the proxy advisor seeking detailed, client-identified voting data, including how individual institutional investors voted on every corporate ballot item.