Carolyn Fairburn, Director General of business group, the CBI, said that the issue of diversity needs to run right through companies and has called for a new voluntary target of 25% for female senior executives in major UK companies.
Read MoreJKX, 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 MoreTroels Lund Poulsen, the Danish minister for business and growth has tasked the Komitéen for god Selskabsledelse (Committee on Corporate Governance) with preparing a set of recommendations for corporate governance for institutional investors. The Code will ask for investors to …
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 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 …
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 MoreThe Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research have improved transparency, so issuers and investors can better understand the work of proxy information providers and advisers, according to the EU’s European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).
However, the ESMA believes …
Read MoreThe Association of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT) officially launched its new AGM voting toolkit this month (08-Dec-15). The 34 policy ‘Red Lines‘ (19 Governance, 10 Social and 5 Environmental) are designed to help pension trustees hold investee companies …
Read MoreNew York City Mayor, Don Blasio, has urged all government pension funds in New York and across the US to divest from funds that include assault weapon manufacturers. In his call he is joining a growing campaign which is …
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