Thursday's insights: HBSC to cut coal financing

Plus, SEC may eye companies' political spending activities

It’s spring proxy season. Will shareholders sting?

. . . . Expect to see a lot more buzz as spring’s proxy season arrives: British banking giant HSBC (HSBC) — currently a big lender to fossil-fuel industries and under considerable pressure from shareholders — has announced that it plans to bring a special resolution on climate change to be voted on at it…