Manifest has this week published a Global Regulatory Review, keeping customers abreast of the latest developments in corporate governance and related disciplines around the world. Global capital markets and investors expectations towards them have changed radically over the past 20 years. Sir Adrian Cadbury could probably never have guessed what his dryly-titled “Report of the […]
Read More“Don’t be British, be Australian” is the message from Claire Bury, the EU’s corporate governance official. Speaking at the UK’s National Associate of Pension Funds investment conference in Edinburgh recently, Claire outlined the Commission’s approach to the forthcoming Governance Green Paper which will be launched in April. Not exactly the best timing in the world for […]
Read MoreThe European Commission this week published a summary of the responses to its Green Paper on Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions. The paper revealed some not so surprising results when it comes to views about the role of institutional investors: many want to see mandatory disclosure of voting policies and records; there’s a widespread desire […]
Read MoreThe threat of quotas to improve board diversity moved a step closer last week with EU Fundamental Rights Commissioner Viviane Reding telling the European parliament: “Equality in decision-making is not yet a fact … I do not rule out the possibility of putting forward legislation in this area.” Speaking to the Guardian newspaper her spokesman , […]
Read MoreWith shareholder engagement moving ever higher up the (potentially) regulatory and market best practice agenda, voting is likewise coming under the spotlight. In recent days, we have seen the unexpected result of the Infineon AGM provoke concerns about ‘irregularities in the voting process’. Manifest’s own investor conference in Paris in September 2009 demonstrated the importance to investors […]
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