WhyDRS Shareholder Proposals Guide

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Advocacy and Corporate Governance: An Overview

Corporations constantly make decisions about operating procedures, corporate compensation, environmental policies, and much more. As a registered shareholder, you have a legally protected avenue and platform to communicate directly with boards of directors. Your proposal can open a conversation about an issue which matters to you.

Publicly traded U.S. securities are run by an elected board of directors, which have a fiduciary duty to make decisions and propose plans which benefit investors. The company has distributed ownership among investors, including beneficial shareholders maintaining an account with a Broker, and directly registered shareholders which hold shares in their name on the issuer’s ledger with the Transfer Agent.

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Activist Investing

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This community is intended to discuss Activist Investors and Activist Investor Groups - terms used to describe individuals or groups who use sufficient ownership to lobby public companies to make changes which a board might otherwise resist. This could be in order to improve working conditions, keep jobs domestic rather than exporting overseas, or encourage more environmentally sustainable choices when operating the business.

Activist investor campaigns can also simply focus on maximizing shareholder value, and can be organized by parties who feel the current board is not meeting the fiduciary obligation to shareholders and wants to influence their decisions and practices. Even hedge funds which specialize in the application of public pressure through media partners can be considered activist investors.

Typically, a threshold of 5% ownership of a company must be reached by an individual or a group before they are recognized. This is because 5% is the ownership level which requires public filing through the SEC using a 13D disclosure - and that public filing will require a public response to demands from the incumbent board of directors.

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