ESMA has now released its final report on ‘The Proxy Advisor Industry’. It’s key recommendation, after long deliberation, is that  there is “no current market failure related to proxy advisors interaction with investors and issuers in the European Union …

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Guest post by:
Magnus Furugård, President and Managing Director, GES International, a Manifest partner

Asset owners and asset managers should engage more strongly on ESG performance with the banks in order to contribute to a more sustainable financial sector, …

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Professor John Kay has published his review of equity markets and long-term decision making which was commissioned by the UK’s Business Secretary Vince Cable.

Here are the key recommendations, source: Kay review – Final Report July 2012

1. The Stewardship …

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Optimising the Means and Ends of Good Governance

Manifest is proud to sponsor the 4th Cambridge International Regulation and Governance Conference on September 6th, at Queens College, Cambridge.

In a timely intervention given recent consultations at national and supra-national level …

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…..on the facts.

The world’s proxy seasons draw to a close with the last remaining Japanese vote deadlines on Tuesday 26th June. That’s one day after the European Securities Markets Authority’s consultation on proxy advisors closes.

Shareholders do like to …

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Guest post by Damien Knight, Director, MM&K Ltd

The Coalition Government, through the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), has been consulting regularly since September 2011 about what it could do to reign in ‘excessive’ executive pay and strengthen …

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Proxy Voting Poll Card

The future of proxy advisors – is there one?

Sarah Wilson, CEO of Manifest spoke at the ICGN London Meeting on 20th March 2012.  Her presentation at the breakout session “the future of proxy advisory” was based on the following …

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Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, this week announced the latest government consultation on executive pay, this time aimed specifically at enhancing shareholder voting rights on the matter.

The consultation seeks opinions on the following outline …

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Today’s announcement by Cairn Energy that it will withdraw resolution 2 at its General Meeting next week, demonstrates that shareholders can act on egregious pay awards when they really want to.

Cairn had proposed the award of shares to Sir …

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