Top of the Agenda - Succession

Nationwide Funds independent chair, director to retire at year-end
By Hillary Jackson
The independent chairman of Nationwide Funds and another long-serving independent director will retire from the board at the end of this year. In anticipation of the departures, the board has nominated two individuals to fill their seats; shareholders vote on the nominees late next month and should they get elected, ...  >> CONTINUE READING <<<

 

 

A Seat at the Table

New Northern Trust series trust directors get down to business
By Hillary Jackson
When Lloyd Wennlund was tapped to chair the board overseeing Northern Trust's new Datum One Series Trust, he knew the boardroom needed to be filled with individuals who could hit the ground running. There are complexities involved with overseeing the various funds and advisers in a series trust—and the providers ...  >> CONTINUE READING <<<

 

 

Added Perspective

What Nom/Gov Chairs Think About the Impact of COVID-19 In the Boardroom
By Julie Hembrock Daum and Ann L. Yerger, Spencer Stuart
We recently surveyed more than 70 nominating/governance (nom/gov) committee chairs of S&P 500 and F500 companies, and spoke to several of them directly for added perspective, to learn how boards responded to the crisis and what longer-term governance changes they think may emerge post COVID. We found they are overwhelmingly ...  >> CONTINUE READING <<<

 

 

Top of the Agenda - Regulatory

SEC's Blass: Permanent in-person meeting relief 'makes good sense'
By Hillary Jackson
Dalia Blass, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management, is exploring whether mutual fund boards should be permanently exempted from in-person meeting requirements. In a wide-ranging speech on July 28 to a Practising Law Institute gathering, Blass said there has been interest from the industry in ...  >> CONTINUE READING <<<

 

 

Viewpoints

Technology oversight demands fund board’s attention
By Peg McLaughlin
COVID-19 has completely upended how all firms conduct their business. A shift to the work-at-home model, where existing technology assets were hastily combined with personal devices and networks, created unprecedented risk for companies. Performance of technology resources in the days and months following the implementation of COVID restrictions and the ...  >> CONTINUE READING <<<

 

 


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