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Executives feel short-term pressure despite its costs research finds

New research from CLT Global (formerly “Focusing Capital on the Long Term”) highlights the challenges and costs that senior business executives world-wide are facing with the rise of short-termism.

The key findings of the report, are that 87% of …

Shareholders urged to link executive pay at oil companies with climate change risks

UK investment campaign group ShareAction has urged investors to use the binding votes on remuneration policy at BP and Shell in 2017 to ensure the oil majors can demonstrate their commercial strategies are aligned with a move to a low …

James Murdoch’s re-appointment as Sky chairman raises concerns

With broadcaster Sky’s AGM taking place on 13th October investors have a chance to show their concern about the re-appointment of James Murdoch as chairman of the company.

Murdoch has previously been chief executive and chairman at Sky. He stepped …

FTSE 100 improves carbon reporting and boosts commitment to green energy survey finds

Communications firm BT has topped the rankings of Carbon Clear’s assessment of FTSE 100 company’s carbon reporting for the third year running.

The carbon advisory service’s survey scores the companies based on their monitoring, reporting and verification; their carbon strategy; …

Investors target food companies to urge encouragement of plant-based protein production

Forty institutional investors, including Coller Capital, three Swedish state pension funds, Aviva, Nordea and Robeco have launched an engagement with 16 multinational food companies highlighting the material risks posed by industrial animal production. The coalition, which together manages $1.25 trillion …

Singapore tops 2016 Asian corporate governance rankings

CG Watch 2016, a survey of 12 major Asia-Pacific markets and 1,027 Asian companies has ranked Singapore as Asia’s top corporate governance (CG) performer followed by Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Korea, China, Philippines and Indonesia.

The …

Thomson Reuters launches a global Diversity and Inclusion Index

Thomson Reuters has launched a Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Index which ranks the top 100 publicly traded companies globally with the most diverse and inclusive workplaces, as measured by 24 metrics across four key categories: diversity, inclusion, people development and …

Still work to do to get more women on boards globally

Researching the top 3,000 companies globally the percentage of women on boards reached 14.7% by the end of 2015 up from 12.7% in 2013 and 9.6% in 2010 according to the latest survey by the Credit Suisse (CS) Research Institute …

US Council of Institutional Investors speaks out against regressive “Choice” Act

The US Council of Institutional of Investors (CII) has written to the House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee objecting to a number of proposals in its Financial CHOICE Act – which has now been approved by committee.

This proposed law …

UK’s public pension funds boosted by new ESG investment guidance

Responsible investment advocates have welcomed the government’s Local Government Pension Scheme guidance which provides a less prescriptive framework for investing as part of the requirement for local authorities to prepare their own investment strategy statement.

The guidance is to enable …