Guest post by Damien Knight, Director, MM&K Ltd
The Coalition Government, through the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), has been consulting regularly since September 2011 about what it could do to reign in ‘excessive’ executive pay and strengthen …
Read MoreThe Manifest/MM&K Executive Director Total Remuneration Survey for 2012 was launched at a seminar in London on Tuesday, 12th June.
The Manifest/MM&K Survey is the most authoritative and up to date analysis of published information on the pay practices of …
Read MoreNever mind the peak meeting season, the past few days has seen a flurry of activity in Westminster which will have a bearing on aspects of shareholder voting and corporate governance in the UK.
On Tuesday, the Treasury Select Committee …
Read MoreThe upcoming AGM of Deutsche Bank AG is looming large in many shareholders minds now. With the long running succession planning debate at the company leading some proxy advisors to publicly recommend opposition to ratification of the supervisory board acts, …
Read MoreAs the so-called “Shareholder Spring” moves into the summer, the question most people are asking is “Where next?”
Secretary of State Vince Cable has laid down a marker for future legislation on a binding vote on remuneration policy. Given that …
Read MoreThis week saw the publication of the latest progress report as part of the Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative sponsored by Aviva Investors. The report by Responsible Research surveyed 27 of the largest stock exchanges across world markets to assess attitudes …
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Sarah Wilson, CEO of Manifest spoke at the ICGN London Meeting on 20th March 2012. Her presentation at the breakout session “the future of proxy advisory” was based on the following …
Read MoreIn this guest article, Cliff Weight of remuneration consultants MM&K responds to a comment from David Brimacombe, senior advisor to Nestor Advisors on our January piece: ‘Remuneration Committee “Cronyism” – digging deeper’. The article was written in response …
Read MoreThe AMF, the French equivalent of the FSA, has finally published an English language version of its February 7th report on the conduct of General Meetings at French listed companies.
The report deals with the four broad themes of dialogue …
Read MoreMore rights for shareholders is one of those sure-fire political winners which would seem churlish to object to. But, with the publication of the UK’s proposals to fix the “payments for failure” fiasco, it looks like the UK government is …
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