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TPR urges chairs to improve board diversity 

March 30, 2023


The Latest guidance by the UK pensions watchdog has urged chairs to play a key role in making boards more diverse and inclusive. 

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published guidance

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CII backs Nasdaq’s proposal to improve diversity on boards

Companies could be delisted if they fail to meet ‘comply or explain’ requirement

The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) has thrown its weight behind Nasdaq’s proposal that would require companies to disclose board diversity or potentially face delisting.

In a …

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Companies to look at the makeup of their leadership teams in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests

Investors declare “a change is gonna come”

Asset owners and fund management groups are pressuring their portfolio companies to look at the makeup of their leadership teams in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests.

The under-representation of non-white …

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CII backs Nasdaq’s proposal to improve diversity on boards

UK reporting watchdog issues diversity warning

The majority of the UK’s leading companies are failing to act on boardroom ethnic diversity, a major report by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) reveals.

The report, which reveals most of the FTSE 350 …

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Women on FTSE 350 boards still to hit 33% target

Board Diversity: SEC Clarifies Reg S-K Disclosures

The staff of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued two new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations (116.11 & 133.13) focussing on how companies should consider board diversity in their …

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Women on FTSE 350 boards still to hit 33% target

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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BEIS Sign

As the UK Government moves towards more detailed legislative proposals for enhancing corporate governance, it has published a list of “some of the worst excuses for not appointing women to FTSE boards”. Around 30% of FTSE350 companies have …

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Views on revised UK code: Companies may find the changes challenging

Data released by the UK government to mark International Women’s Day this week (8th March) revealed record numbers of women are on boards of FTSE 100 companies.

These figures show 309 positions – almost 29% – of FTSE100 board positions …

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corporate governance codes

Paul Polman, chief executive of Unilever, Hiro Mizuno, chief investment officer of the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund and Brenda Trenowden, global Chair of the 30% Club, opened the market at the London Stock Exchange on Friday (2nd February) …

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Malaysia

Malaysia is close to achieving its target of getting women on the boards of all of its top 100 companies its Securities Commission (SC) has announced.

When the Malaysian code on corporate governance (MCCG) was published in April last year

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