A quarter of the UK’s biggest companies are failing to adopt the right remuneration polices to reward executive performance, according to a new study by The Purposeful Company, a management think tank.…
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Shareholder dissent among investors in the top 350 UK companies stands at 2.95% on average for 2019, lower than 10 years ago, according to Minerva Analytics’ 2019 UK Voting Review.
The figure – …
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High performing fund managers overlooked… if they’re black
Investors are being urged to tackle institutional racism after a major study found black fund managers are often overlooked due to their colour – even when they are high performing.
The …
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Investors looking for consistent sustainability reporting
Investors are calling for an overhaul of sustainability reporting standards following concerns that current guidelines prevent accurate and informed investment decisions.
A major survey by consultancy McKinsey & Co, published this week, revealed …
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The Hampton-Alexander Review published its third annual report on 13 November. The report found that a quarter of FTSE 350 companies have only one woman on their board, described as “one & done” boards, and there remain five all-male boards. …
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Manifest has achieved a Top 4th ranking for the independent provider that is best at delivering Proxy Voting Execution in the IRRI Survey 2017, the globally-authoritative review of trends in independent SRI & corporate governance research.
The IRRI survey …
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National corporate governance codes need to be adapted to take account of the challenges that exist when companies have dominant shareholders or small groups of shareholders collectively have a dominant share of the total shareholder vote according to a survey …
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The UK government has commissioned research into share buybacks with a particular focus on whether some companies are repurchasing their own shares to artificially inflate executive pay.
The government has appointed consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers to undertake the research into share buybacks …
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Drinks company Diageo has topped the latest rankings for good corporate governance from the Institute of Directors (IoD) in its third annual review of the UK’s top 100 companies.
The 2017 Good Governance Report was compiled for the IoD by …
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