JKX, the London-listed oil company has seen its entire board being replaced following years of questionable corporate governance and poor performance.
Proxima Capital, JKX’s third largest shareholder managed to secure over two thirds of the votes cast at a special …
Read MoreThe relationship between the chairman and the chief executive of a company is absolutely fundamental according to Sir David Walker, former chairman of Barclays, speaking on Radio 4’s, The Bottom Line.
In a discussion about managing the boardroom, Michael …
Read MoreTesco has been told to introduce significant changes to practices and systems after the Groceries Code Adjudicator, Christine Tacon, found the supermarket giant had seriously breached a legally-binding Groceries Supply Code of Practice (the Code) to protect groceries suppliers.
Tacon’s …
Read MoreAn agreement has been reached between 31 countries for the automatic exchange of information on the taxes paid by, and the economic activity of, multinational businesses. This increase in transparency between countries should help tax authorities understand if multinationals are …
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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 …
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