Investors for Opioid Accountability (IOA), a US coalition which includes asset managers, faith-based, public and trades union pension funds with over $1.3 trillion in assets have filed multiple shareholder resolutions on board oversight of business risks related to opioids at 10 opioid distributor and manufacturer companies. This comes after mounting criticism of the businesses which have been […]
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Independent investors in media group Sky voted heavily against the remuneration report with just 36% of shareholders giving it their backing at the AGM this week (12th October). Chairman James Murdoch received a narrow vote in support of his re-election amid concerns about his lack of independence. Manifest’s pre-AGM analysis of Sky’s executive remuneration gave […]
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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 Cass Business School and examines a range of 47 factors relating to how companies are […]
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Women have increased their numbers on Canadian company boards according to a review of the corporate governance disclosure of 660 companies as it relates to women in leadership roles. The review which covered company reporting made between December 31, 2016 and March 31, 2017 was completed by Canadian provincial securities regulatory authorities. This is their annual […]
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ICSA: The Governance Institute and The Investment Association (IA) have launched guidance to help UK company boards ensure they understand and weigh up the interests of their stakeholders when making strategic decisions. This follows the recent publication of the government’s response to its corporate governance green paper consultation. The government recognised the strong support for strengthening […]
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Company boards, particularly the non-executive director members, need to ensure they take an ethical and value-led approach to financial reporting according to the latest paper from the UK’s Institute of Business Ethics. The author of the report Guy Jubb, former governance head at Standard Life Investments, stated that accounting is not simply a question of […]
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The latest Dutch Female Board Index shows that the total numbers of female executive directors and the number of companies with female directors has fallen in the year to 31st August 2017 compared with the previous year. The study of 85 Dutch listed companies found that of the 209 total executive directors 13 of them were […]
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The UK government has signalled that it will taking a shareholder and stakeholder market-based approach to governance reform rather than introducing more rules on executive pay. According to early briefings reported in the on Financial Times (FT) and Daily Telegraph he government’s response to the consultation on its corporate governance paper green paper, will published next […]
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Despite recent high profile cyber attacks more than two thirds of boards at the UK’s biggest companies have not received training to deal with a cyber incident (68%) according to the government’s latest cyber governance health check survey. The survey of FTSE 350 companies found that more than half of the respondents said cyber threats […]
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The diversity of the leadership of the UK’s top 100 companies has risen but this has largely been driven by increased gender diversity while ethnic diversity has plateaued according to a report by executive search firm Green Park. This is Green Park’s fourth report analysing diversity within the UK’s top companies and the first time Green […]
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