The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged INTECH Investment Management LLC, a Florida based investment advisor with violating its proxy rules after it was found that it failed to describe its voting policies and procedures  as well as failing to …

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The Institute of Directors in South Africa has published drafts of the King III Report and King III Code on Corporate Governance.

Shareholders are being offered a chance for a say on pay but it won’t be mandatory. The draft …

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Manifest’s request for global shareholders to have a “Say on Pay” at Irish companies has its first success; DCC Group plc has confirmed that they will be allowing a shareholder vote on the directors remuneration report at this summer’s AGM. …

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Closing submissions have been made in the case taken by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (‘ASIC’) against Fortescue Metals Group for misleading and deceptive conduct.

The case centres on a series of announcements FMG made to the market …

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Manifest this week requisitioned a say on pay shareholder resolution at the Bank of Ireland and four more leading Irish listed companies: DCC; Elan; C&C Group; and Independent News & Media.

As the course of this year’s European proxy season …

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Today’s FT leads with the news of Xtrata’s pay policy rebuff from shareholders as another example of shareholders flexing their muscules over pay for failure.

Despite a 35% fall in EPS in the past year, the Xstrata board proposed increases …

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The agencies that advise fund managers on how to vote are an increasingly important feature of the protests and rebellions that shareholders stage, writes Kate Burgess.

…Manifest is another whose standing has risen in tandem with the focus on corporate

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Everybody? Somebody?  Nobody? Anybody?

There has been much head-scratching in recent months as the institutional investment community gets to grips with the various responsibilities for oversight that clearly did not fit together to prevent the financial crisis.

One recent provocative …

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The notice of the AGM of AMP Ltd, the Australian life assurance company, has been amended and re-issued in light of recent board changes.

Meredith Hellicar resigned from the Board following the court judgement in the James Hardie case. Hellicar …

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It is only a few weeks since BP clashed with its shareholders about pay for its top executives at its annual meeting. Now Royal Dutch Shell appears to be heading in the same direction….

….  it will be the second …

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