Uncertainty now surrounds the status of the Shareholder Rights Directive following the UK’s Brexit referendum result. The Directive is currently stalled at the trialogue stage involving negotiations between the Commission, Parliament and country representatives. The UK has been a vocal …
Read MoreMoves to regulate proxy research would undermine relationships with shareholders, compromise research integrity and eliminate competition say global investors.
Proposed regulation contradicts moves to improve objectivity in sell-side space.
The US House of Representatives’ Finance Services Committee last week …
Read MoreThe UK’s parliamentary inquiry into the collapse of the retailer, BHS, continued lastweek with the questioning of Sir Philip Green, the chairman of Arcadia and former owner of the business. MPs tried to relate Green’s conduct in relation to the …
Read MoreMore radical solutions to rising executive pay need to be found than those proposed by the Investment Association’s Executive Remuneration Working Group in its recent interim report, according to the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE) and the High Pay …
Read MoreDoes anyone know? Not yet. But, by the end of this month, the ethics think tank Responsible 100 believes it will have a better idea.
The problem Responsible 100 seeks to solve is the credibility deficit endured by businesses which …
Read MoreAs inquiries continue into the retailer BHS – focusing on its sale last year and its large pension fund deficit – its administrators, Philip Duffy and Benjamin Wiles, managing directors at Duff & Phelps, announced that it had been unable …
Read MoreThe German investors’ association, DSW, has tabled a shareholder resolution to be considered at next month’s AGM of carmaker Volkswagen (VW), which is proposing a special audit into the actions of its directors in respect of the ‘dieselgate’ scandal. Last …
Read MoreA group of institutional investors has called on companies to assess and report their climate-related risks within their annual report to shareholders, in the interests of prudent and long-term capital stewardship.
The position paper has been signed by Natasha Landell-Mills, …
Read MoreShareholder resolutions requesting reporting on how oil companies ExxonMobil and Chevron will adapt to climate change targets received record investor backing at their AGMs last week (25th May), according to US pressure group, Ceres.
The resolution that would have required …
Read MoreAchieving greater board diversity to improve company performance was the most pressing concern of respondents to the UK’s Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) succession planning consultation.
The FRC’s feedback statement on the consultation found that respondents believed that boards as a …
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