JKX, the London-listed oil company has seen its entire board being replaced following years of questionable corporate governance and poor performance.

Proxima Capital, JKX’s third largest shareholder managed to secure over two thirds of the votes cast at a special …

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On the seventh anniversary of the first piece of legislation signed into law by US President Obama, the White House has announced a series of  steps designed to promote work place diversity and equality.

According to a briefing produced to …

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Troels Lund Poulsen, the Danish minister for business and growth has tasked the Komitéen for god Selskabsledelse (Committee on Corporate Governance) with preparing a set of recommendations for corporate governance for institutional investors. The Code will ask for investors to …

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The relationship between the chairman and the chief executive of a company is absolutely fundamental according to Sir David Walker, former chairman of Barclays, speaking on Radio 4’s, The Bottom Line.

In a discussion about managing the boardroom, Michael …

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Tesco has been told to introduce significant changes to practices and systems after the Groceries Code Adjudicator, Christine Tacon, found the supermarket giant had seriously breached a legally-binding Groceries Supply Code of Practice (the Code) to protect groceries suppliers.

Tacon’s …

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An agreement has been reached between 31 countries for the automatic exchange of information on the taxes paid by, and the economic activity of, multinational businesses. This increase in transparency between countries should help tax authorities understand if multinationals are …

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The Stewardship of Sustainabilitygreencity

The Minerva Say on Sustainability framework gives pension funds, asset managers and other interested stakeholders accessible reports and data tools to understand how investee companies do (or do not) embed sustainability in their governance systems.

Sustainability

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In December we wrote about the AMNT’s Red Lines Voting Policy and Manifest’s new service “Red Lines Monitor”  [link]. AMNT hopes that Red Lines Voting will foster better understanding of stewardship issues by lay pension trustees and encourage …

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This year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos gave political and business leaders an opportunity to take stock of the United Nations (UN) 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement (COP21) agreed last year.

Ban Ki-moon,

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The UK’s accounting regulator, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), is to consider whether the accountancy firm, KPMG, or any individuals require further investigation following a review of the report, published last November by the Prudential Regulatory Authority and the

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