Glossary of Terms
a
- Acquisition
- Acquisition Financing
- Activist Investor
- Advisory Firm
- Advisory Vote
- Agenda
- Annual General Meeting (AGM)
- Antitrust Review
- Asset Servicing
b
- Base Salary
- BDC (Business Development Company)
- Beneficial Owner
- Block Trades
- Board Evaluation
- Board of Directors
- Bonus
- Brokerage Firm
c
- Carbon Footprint
- Clawback Provision
- Collaborative Engagement
- Compensation Advisory
- Compensation Committee
- Compensation Ratio
- Corporate Actions
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Governance Advisory
- Corporate Governance Code
- Custodian
d
- Deferred Compensation
- Difficult Solicitations
- Direct Registration System (DRS)
- Director Independence
- Disclosure Request
- Due Diligence
e
- Earnout
- Email Voting
- ESG Advisory
- ESG Disclosure and Reporting
- ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)
- ESG Integration
- ESG Materiality Assessment
- ESG Ratings and Rankings
- Executive Compensation
- Executive Remuneration
- Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)
f
- Form 13F
- Friendly Takeover
g
- Golden Parachute
- Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)
- Greenmail
h
- Hostile Takeover
i
- Impact Investing
- Inbound Help Line
- Information Agent
- Information Agent Services
- Institutional Holdings Reports
- Institutional Investor
- Institutional Ownership
- Institutional Shareholder
- Institutional Trading
- Investor Relations
l
- Letter Campaign
- Litigation
m
- Meeting Agenda
- Merger
- Minutes
- Mutual Fund Proxy Solicitation
n
- NOBO (Non-Objecting Beneficial Owner)
- NOBO Shareholder Outreach
- Nominee Account
- Notice and Access
- Notice of Meeting
o
- Ownership Changes
- Ownership Stake
p
- Peer Group Benchmarking
- Performance Shares
- Poison Pill
- Proxy Advisor
- Proxy Advisory Firm
- Proxy Card
- Proxy Contest
- Proxy Logistics
- Proxy Logistics Services
- Proxy solicitation
- Proxy Solicitor
- Proxy Statement
- Proxy Voting
q
- Q&A Session
- Quorum
r
- Record Date
- Registered Shareholder
- Registered Shareholder Outreach
- Regulation 14A
- REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust)
- Resolution
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Retail-Heavy Proxy Solicitation
- Retail Shareholder
s
- Safekeeping
- Say on Pay
- Share Certificate
- Shareholder Activism
- Shareholder Communication
- Shareholder Engagement
- Shareholder List
- Shareholder Participation
- Shareholder Proposal
- Shareholder Vote Projection
- Staggered Board
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Stewardship
- Stewardship Code
- Stock Options
- Street Name Shareholder
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
t
- Telephone Voting
- Tender Offer
- Text Voting
- Total Compensation
- Transaction Landing Page
- Transfer Agent
v
- Virtual Meeting Platform
- Virtual Shareholder Meeting
- Volume Analysis
- Voting Guidelines
w
- Webcast
- White Paper
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