If Democratic New York Senator Charles ‘Chuck’ E Schumer has his way, shareholders of US-quoted companies can expect to see their ownership rights significantly enhanced. Schumer’s move was flagged in late April but reports are coming in that the Bill …
Read MoreHalf of Europe’s biggest banks have changed their chief executive or chairman in the past 12 months, leaving question marks over their leadership experience just as the first signs emerge of an economic recovery.
Ten of Europe’s 20 largest banks …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreManifest’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. …
Read MoreManifest 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 …
Read MoreToday’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 …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreEverybody? 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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