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Last week the European Sustainable Investment Forum, Eurosif, published a Public Policy Position Paper on Sustainable and Responsible Investment . It calls upon the European Commission to adopt measures facilitating the exercise of shareholder rights and transparency.
Haven’t we …
Read MoreAhead of the Rio Tinto AGMs, Manifest flagged up its concerns regarding the re-election of Sir Roderick Eddington in our meeting business report. Manifest’s US partners, Proxy Governance, issued an ‘against’ recommendation on his re-election.
The results of the …
Read MoreManifest’s North American partner, PROXYGovernance Inc has seen a trend by some US companies to adjust their pay components in response to the market drop and economic downturn – often by suspending long-term incentive pay in favor of more …
Read MoreThe Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) is urging shareholders to take advantage of the upcoming AGM season to assert their rights and to “not wait until they have been trampled on”.
PSE director and co-chair of the recently established corporate governance …
Read MoreThe Conference Board Governance Center has got together with Damien Park of Hedge Fund Solutions to produce guidance and a checklist of issues for boards to consider in their relations with shareholders. In particular the report is focused on how …
Read MoreVoting at Finnish companies is set to get a whole lot easier following an announcement from the Finnish government which will see Finnish company law brought into line with the EU Shareholder Rights Directive. Now that the contents of the …
Read MoreBouygues, a constituent of the French blue-chip index, the CAC 40, is looking for shareholder approval for three potentially contentious proposals at the forthcoming AGM on 23 April.
The most contentious proposal is Resolution 24, seeking an authorisation to issue …
Read MoreUS Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s recently announced proposals for US recovery have attracted extreme criticism in many quarters for failing to address the issue of Fair Value Accounting. Alex Pollock of the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute and a long-standing critic …
Read MoreLondon AIM-listed Sibir Energy plc, (SBE.LN), the Russian energy company listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), has begun proceedings in the High Court against two of its former directors, Henry Cameron, former chief executive, and Chalva Tchigirinski, a property …
Read MoreManifest has written to the SEC in support of rule changes designed to eliminate uninstructed broker votes being used at director elections. The New York Stock Exchange had recently filed a request with the SEC to change Rule 452 which …
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