The UK’s Pensions Regulator, TPR, has issued new investment guidance for defined benefit pension schemes including expanded duties on stewardship, sustainability, ESG and voting issues.
The guidance follows the common principles set out in TPR’s DC investment guidance together …
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The Business Roundtable (BRT), an association of the top US chief executives, has voiced its support for President Trump’s plans to reform Dodd Frank and has outlined a number of corporate governance regulations that it believes need reform or to …
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The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has argued that it needs more powers to take enforcement action against directors so that it can investigate and prosecute all directors for financial reporting breaches and associated issues of integrity, rather than only …
Read MoreThe UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has announced that in 2017 it will carry out a number of targeted thematic reviews of company reporting and audit on issues it knows to be of shareholder interest and where weaknesses have been …
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Canada has introduced a bill aimed at improving its corporate governance framework. An Act to amend the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA), the Canada Cooperatives Act, the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act and the Competition Act includes proposals to increase shareholder …
Read MoreFollowing revelations that shareholders in Indian companies were being disadvantaged by private equity promoters SEBI, India’s Securities and Exchange Board is looking to cut down on unfair practices.
In a consultation to change to its Listing Rules SEBI said …
Read MoreThe US Council of Institutional of Investors (CII) has written to the House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee objecting to a number of proposals in its Financial CHOICE Act – which has now been approved by committee.
This proposed law …
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The UK government will have the power to make, through regulations, the framework for gender pay gap reporting by companies with 250 or more employees when Section 78 of the Equality Act 2010 comes into force on 22nd August.
Section …
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