July 15, 2015
Keith Higgins
Director, Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
email: i9review@sec.gov
Dear Director Higgins,
re: Rule 14a-8(i)(9)
I am writing on behalf of myself and other individual investors and investors in mutual funds and as a former asset manager. Shareholders are at a tremendous disadvantage vis-a-vis corporate management. Executives and boards area much too free to run corporatoins for their benefit rather than the shareholders, employees and other stakeholders in a corporation. I urge you to be very wary in excluding shareholder proposals. Shareholder proposals are already at a disadvantage and only the most compelling prevail. The last thing we need is for the rules to be stacked against them.
Thank you for your consideration.
Jonathan Reiss