The European Commission has been busily working on responsible investment issues in recent weeks, culminating in two documents: A consultation on “Disclosure of Non-Financial Information by Companies” and a summary of responses to their green paper on corporate governance in …
Read More“The investing community desires change”. Not something we weren’t aware of, surely? However, when it’s a summary of the almost unanimous response to the most comprehensive regulatory review of the US proxy system the SEC has undertaken in 30 years, …
Read MoreBritish readers will be familiar with the mounting scandal surrounding alleged phone tapping at the News of the World when Andy Coulson, the Prime Minister’s communications director was the paper’s editor. The UK, in common with many nations takes personal …
Read MoreThe California Public Employees’ Retirement System has proposed changes to the strategy used for developing its annual ‘Focus List.” The revised approach would change the targeted companies from the Russell 1000 to CalPERS top 500 domestic equity holdings. In addition, …
Read MoreOne of the key benefits of an active network like the corporate governance community is that the ever increasing reading pile gets shared around. Jim McRitchie, the noted US corporate governance blogger has done all of us a timely …
Read MoreThe Australian Future Fund, established in 2006 to assist future Australian governments meet the cost of public sector superannuation liabilities, has released its 2009/10 annual report. The report reveals for the first time how the Fund has cast its voting …
Read MoreCentamin Egypt, the Australian incorporated gold mining company which entered the FTSE 250 index in June 2010, will hold its AGM on 9 November in London. At its 2009 AGM the remuneration report vote was defeated, however shareholders will not …
Read MoreThe last couple of years have clearly been times of great opportunity for the promotion of responsible investment in general, and the Eurosif 2010 survey figures show a significant uptick in European SRI assets under management, now at €5 trilllion…
Read MoreThe recent concept release on the US proxy system has certainly brought some interesting challenges and concerns to the debate. A recent set of concerns from an investment advisor provoked some thoughts at Manifest about privacy, identification and equal treatment …
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