A PROXY Governance review of Russell 3000 companies holding their 2009 annual meeting prior to July 1 reveals considerable disparity in female board representation across sectors. Overall, women make up 10.7 percent of directors in the Russell 3000, but just …
Read MoreWelcome news this week about Japanese corporate governance developments from Washington-DC based Council of Institutional Investors. Jonathan Urick, CII’s international governance policy co-ordiantor met with Makoto Seta and Toshiya Otsu of the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) to discuss their …
Read MoreManifest cordially invites you to you our end of season colloquium in Paris on September 9th 2009.
Please join us for an afternoon of informative analysis and lively debate in the graceful surroundings of the British Ambassador’s Residence in the …
Read MoreManagement buy-outs remain a key area of governance concern; the protection of the minority shareholders is of vital importance and constant vigilance is called for. Companies with a controlling shareholder in particular require an ever greater level of attention, especially …
Read MoreNorthern Rock’s former shareholders have lost their bid for a judicial review of the nationalisation compensation scheme but have vowed to press their claims in the the House of Lords and, potentially, the European Court of Human Rights. The House …
Read MoreAustralia’s Business Day has reported that The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (‘ASIC’) wants seven former non-executive directors and three former executives at James Hardie banned from company directorships for at least five years each and fined a total of …
Read MoreThe UK’s corporate governance regulator, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has today published a progress report on its review of the Combined Code on Corporate Governance, which it kicked off in March 2009.
The report summarises the results of the …
Read MoreA report by the Asset Management Working Group of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative links the integration of ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) issues into investment processes with legal responsibilities of fiduciaries (including pension trustees, asset managers …
Read MoreThe Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board (AADB) has announced that it will investigating PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and its staff in relation to its role as auditor to struggling sub-prime lender Cattles Plc.
As previously reported on Manifest-I, Cattles has sacked six …
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