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The Manifest/MM&K Total Remuneration Survey 2009 was published this week. Here is the press coverage it has received so far:
Bloomberg: Chief executive officers at Britain’s leading 100 companies received pay increases last year even as the FTSE 100 Index …
Read MoreNearly 180 shareholder proposals will come to a vote at 102 U.S. companies holding shareholder meetings between May 1 and May 15. Of these proposals, 35% relate to social and environmental issues (including, among others, climate change, sustainability, and political …
Read MoreAre some European issuers trying to avoid playing fair with their minority shareholders? With the news that USS and Hermes have now tendered their Océ shares after the Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeals rejected the pension funds’ …
Read MoreThe governmental responses to the financial crisis have been many and varied with markedly different approaches being taken on both sides of the Atlantic. One common strand between the European and US administrations has been the role of institutional shareholders …
Read MoreHenry Ford is frequently misquoted as saying “History is bunk” what he actually said was: “History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is …
Read MoreWe noted last month that Australia’s Productivity Commission had released a detailed discussion document which included a package of suggested changes to the Corporations Act and ASX listing rules. Over 50 submissions were made to the Commission following the publication …
Read MoreLabour rights campaigners have accused leading British retailers of trapping their overseas garment workers in poverty. In a report published by anti-poverty charity War on Want and NGO Labour Behind the Label, Asda and Matalan are accused of lacking any …
Read MoreThe increasing foreign ownership of UK companies is forcing the UK’s reporting watchdog the FRC rethink the role of audit and market oversight.
Stephen Haddrill, chief executive of the Financial Reporting Council, speaking to senior finance figures this week said …
Read MoreBig Four auditor Deloitte has enhanced its presence in the green consultancy market through the acquisition of sustainability and consultancy adviser dcarbon8.
The firm will be integrated with Deloitte’s environmental and sustainability consulting practice, with founder Guy Battle becoming a …
Read MoreWhile it is good news to see that Siemens’ shareholders have resolved to put the past firmly behind them, it is interesting to note the priorities of the Siemens’ PR team.
In most markets, proxy voting disclosure has reached a …
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