22 January 2026
The UK government has ditched its long-awaited Audit and Corporate Governance Reform Bill in a controversial decision which has courted condemnation from corporate governance …
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4 December 2025
Investors with more than U$245 trillion in AUM have thrown their weight behind a new report from the Governance for Growth Investor Campaign (GGIC) …
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14 November 2025
Japan’s Prime Minster Sanae Takaichi has condemned companies for having too great a focus on their shareholders and taking insufficient action to increase wages …
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August 7, 2025
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has called for a new EU-wide stewardship code to be created to enhance coherence and reduce fragmentation between …
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July 15, 2025
The number of controversial issues flagged in shareholder resolutions at Dutch AGMs has fallen amid improved company-shareholder engagement according to a recent paper released by …
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June 5, 2025
Japanese companies have accelerated the uptake of virtual-only AGMs, with more than 500 adopting articles to allow such meetings according to the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s (TSE) …
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Questions remain over how virtual AGMs can work for all investors, after a full season of shareholder and company meetings has been carried out online.
While some “excellent practices” seen over …
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Companies, regulators and markets are increasingly realising that the AGM season will be severely disrupted by the COVID19 pandemic.
As social distancing becomes the norm, traditional annual meetings where shareholders gather to hear CEO presentations …
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The UK Government has now implemented social distancing measures across the UK as the coronavirus outbreak continues to gather pace.
Mass gatherings are being postponed or cancelled in response, but UK companies with scheduled annual general meetings (AGM) are having …
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