Hot Topics — Shareholder engagement: A new era in corporate governance (September 2013)
In the new era of shareholder engagement, there is an emerging trend where shareholders are demanding personal interaction with directors and not just the investor relations officer or members of the management team. Shareholder engagement is an effective means of communicating with and soliciting feedback from shareholders directly. Many organizations have a lot of questions about how to begin shareholder engagement, how frequently this contact should be made, who should be making contact, and what the discussion should entail. This edition of Deloitte’s Hot Topics discusses the answers to these lingering questions and much more.