Manifest is pleased to announce the appointment of Valerie Callen as Business Development Manager this week. Valerie will be working alongside Paul Hewitt and will be focused primarily on public sector pension funds. Valerie has been involved with local authority and other not-for-profit sector pension funds for over 28 years in a variety of roles […]
Read MoreGovernance veteran Bob Monks recently attended the London Business School’s Colloquium on Corporate Governance, an invitation-only event comprising 75 of the leading governmental, private sector business and investors in the UK who convened to consider recent governance failings. Bob was asked to present the key note address at the opening night dinner. What he said will come as no […]
Read MoreFollowing moves by US government last week to set pay limits at firms that have received TARP assistance, Mats Isaksson, OECD head of corporate affairs has given a public interview outlining the OECD’s view of the role of corporate governance and shareholders in the current financial crisis: What are the key corporate governance lessons from the financial […]
Read MoreJapan is famed in the West for many stereotype images, cherry blossom, salary men, overcrowded commuter trains and for those of us in the world of governance, a chaotic proxy season. But back to the commuter crush. Many Japanese women choose to commute in female-only carriages during rush hour to avoid being groped by men. Following a surge of arrests (2,000 […]
Read MoreManifest is very sad to report the passing of Miss Kuny Kobayashi, the founder of Governance Visions, a Japanese proxy voting agency. We first got to know Kuny during Manifest’s partnership with IRRC and we were impressed with her determination to reform the governance and proxy problems in the Japanese market. Before passing away last […]
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