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UNPRI’s Board has this week issued an eight point action plan calling for more investment in active ownership and oversight.
In an open admission that investors have had a role to play in current difficulties, Donald MacDonald, Chair of the …
Read MoreDutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos today hit out at shareholders for doing ‘virtually nothing’ to prevent the current financial crisis.
Speaking to the International Corporate Governance conference in Amsterdam, Bos used the platform as an opportunity to make a forthright …
Read MoreLet it not be said that the world of shareholder oversight and fiscal prudence is without its lighter moments. Here are two offerings from YouTube contributor LMcDuff with a musical take on the demise of the US financial system.
Wall …
Read MoreChrysalis is no stranger to director payoff issues, as reported in the Daily Telegraph last year. This year’s annual report is equally revealing. During 2008 Michael Connole received compensation for loss of office of £410,000, while Richard Huntingford received compensation …
Read MoreAs the Treasury Select Committee (TSC) hearings rumble on, professional investors have been under close scrutiny. Had Alistair Darling had the foresight to tax the word ‘responsibility’, he could probably have recouped a large slice of the unprecedented sums the …
Read MoreManifest has recently published its findings on voting at UK shareholder meetings in 2008 and this prompted suggestions that we should make a submission to UK’s Treasury Select Committee on the Banking Crisis.
The Committee is still taking evidence and …
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