In the fall of 2014, RR Donnelley, Equilar, and the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University surveyed 64 asset managers and owners with a combined $17 trillion in assets to understand how institutional investors use the information in corporate proxies to make voting and investment decisions. Only 38 percent of institutional investors believe that corporate disclosure about executive compensation is clear and easy to understand.
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