Australia’s 2017 AGM season was significantly “less tumultuous” than the 2016 season, with fewer ‘strikes’ (a 25% vote against) on remuneration reports the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) has reported.
Most Australian companies hold their AGMs in …
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The Labour Party has criticised the UK government’s choice of chair for its coalition group that will be developing corporate governance principles for private companies. James Wates CBE, chairman of Wates, a family-owned construction firm, chaired the first meeting …
Read MoreThe EU’s High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Sustainable Finance, set up by the European Commission in December 2016, has produced its final recommendations. The Commission has pledged that these proposals will form part of its sustainable finance action plan …
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The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s (PLSA) 2018 corporate governance policy and voting guidelines have been published providing its members with examples of good stewardship practice and recommendations for key votes at the Annual General Meetings of their investee companies, …
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The House of Commons’ Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committees have launched a joint inquiry into the collapse of construction firm Carillion.
The select committees said they would be investigating how a company that was …
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The 2018 State of Green Business Report – produced by GreenBiz and Trucost – stated that the corporate carbon emissions of the largest 1,200 global companies and the largest 500 US companies fell in 2016 reaching the lowest level in …
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Global companies attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos have made sustainability commitments on recycling and renewable energy.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which is campaigning for a circular economy in the use of materials, announced in …
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