The Stewardship of Sustainability
The Minerva Say on Sustainability framework gives pension funds, asset managers and other interested stakeholders accessible reports and data tools to understand how investee companies do (or do not) embed sustainability in their governance systems.
Sustainability …
Read MoreThe founder of the Easy group of companies, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, used his 49% stake in easyHotel, to vote against the company’s directors’ remuneration report leading to a majority opposing the resolution to approve the report at its recent AGM. …
Read MoreThe board of retailer Next has been forced to call a general shareholder meeting next month after finding a technical infringement of the Companies Act 2006 in respect of the payment of the dividends.
The issue relates to the dividends …
Read MoreAs the global rich and powerful gathered for the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, Oxfam released a report which it claimed showed 62 people own as much as the poorest half of the world’s population.
Read MoreThe gender gap could widen in the economy of the future according to a World Economic Forum report published as global business and political leaders gathered for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Among the topics discussed at the meeting …
Read MoreCompliance with the UK Corporate Governance Code remains high,with 90 per cent of the FTSE 350 complying with all but one or two provisions, according to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in its report, Developments in Corporate Governance and Stewardship …
Read MoreThe Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (the Association), better known as the National Association of Pension Funds of old, has updated its Corporate Governance Policy and Voting Guidelines. The Corporate Governance Policy and Voting Guidelines aim to promote the …
Read MoreCorporate tax avoidance, followed by executive pay are the key business ethics issues identified by the general public in a survey conducted for the Institute of Business Ethics.
The top five issues in respect of company behaviour, that respondents …
Read MoreThe UK’s top companies look set to meet targets to increase the number of women on their boards according to the latest FT–ICSA Boardroom Bellwether survey. This follows the Davies Review which found that within the FTSE 100 a …
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