The Social Investment Forum (SIF) and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility have launched a website – www.SaveShareholderRights.org – as part of a campaign to oppose controversial US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposals they argue would seriously undermine investor …

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Top UK companies are increasingly incorporating non-financial factors such as customer satisfaction into executive bonus plans, accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has found. PwC’s research revealed that the number of companies offering bonus plans based on purely financial measures has halved …

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Pension funds surveyed by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) are working more closely with the companies they invest in to actively promote corporate governance.

More than three quarters of these funds have helped change remuneration packages, board membership …

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 Nasdaq, the US exchange, wishes to divest its 31% stake in the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Nasdaq built up its stake earlier this year during the course of an unsuccessful takeover bid, and earlier in August backed an LSE/…

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Some 23% of FTSE 350 companies are not adequately reporting to shareholders on the activities of their audit committees, producing in effect little more than a summary of the committees’ terms of reference, research by the Local Authority Pension Fund

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

Reputational Sanctions in China’s Securities Market
Benjamin Liebman and Curtis Milhaupt, Columbia Law School

Public criticism of listed companies by the Shanghai …

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Large companies would be forced to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions to a common standard under proposals by Conservative Party think tank the Quality of Life Policy Group. The Group, chaired by former environment minister John Gummer, was formed …

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LCH.Clearnet, the clearing house, has issued formal requests to Deutsche Börse and Borsa Italiana for links allowing it to clear share trades executed on their platforms.

LCH.Clearnet said implementation of these links will allow users of those markets to …

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

Do IFRS/UK-GAAP reconciliations convey new information?
Edward Lee and Martin Walker, University of Manchester – Division of Accounting & Finance; and Hans

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Manifest-I presents a summary of recently released academic papers on international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues.

The Special Interest Race to CEO Primacy and the End of Corporate Governance Law
Steven Ramirez, professor of law, Loyola University of …

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