The Committee believes there would be considerable potential benefit for the economy if shareholders were able more easily to elect directors who are committed to better corporate performance, but not if the result would merely be to facilitate the use of the election process by small groups of shareholders more interested in their personal causes than in the performance of the firm.

Acontroversial 2003 Securities and Exchange Commission rule, intended to make it easier for shareholders to nominate and elect members of corporate boards, is back on the table.

Does price competition exist in the mutual fund industry? If so, is it too weak to prevent anticompetitive pricing by investment advisors to retail investors?

The SEC's proposed rule on shareholder voting focuses on process without consideration of the way public companies organize themselves or relate to their shareholders.

The SEC should abandon its new proposed shareholder voting rule until it can demonstrate why intervention is evennecessary.

The SECmust make it easier and legally safer forlarge shareholders to play a meaningful role in corporate control contests, even if they have no interest in assuming control themselves.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has recently proposed rules to assist shareholders in placing nominees for directors on the ballot at shareholders meetings. In a recent release, the SEC stated that the proposed rules "may serve to align the interests of the board and security holders, thereby giving investors greater...