Governance
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INSIGHT: Responsible investment, 26 January, 2021
Why Covid-19 is driving action on climate, biodiversity and social justice
The pandemic has underlined the importance of sustainable investing to global progress on ESG and stakeholder governance.
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NEWS: Governance, 21 January, 2021
Board evaluations review finds room for improvement
The Chartered Governance Institute calls for firms to disclose more data on board performance reviews, including conflicts of interest.
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NEWS: Governance, 18 January, 2021
Boards urged to reform AGMs as part of post-pandemic strategy
ShareAction has called on boards to reform AGMs as part of a “purposeful” process that maximises shareholder and stakeholder involvement.
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COMMENT: Board composition, 15 January, 2021
‘A systemic risk’: investors demand greater ethnic diversity in boardrooms
State Street's CEO says ethnic diversity on boards is "material to long-term sustainable returns”. It's a reminder that businesses do not exist in a vacuum.
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NEWS: Disclosures, 13 January, 2021
Investor group calls for shareholder votes on climate strategy
The Investor Forum says greater shareholder influence over climate strategy will increase pressure on boards to meet UK net zero targets.
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NEWS: Research, 12 January, 2021
Local CEOs ‘spend more on CSR in their communities’
Chief executives who lead firms located within 100 miles of their birthplace undertake more CSR activities than non-local CEOs.
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INSIGHT: Outlook, 11 January, 2021
Beyond Covid: risk and resilience among governance trends for 2021
Digitalisation, diversity, risk and resilience are just some of the governance issues set to dominate the corporate landscape in 2021.
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COMMENT: CEO pay, 8 January, 2021
CEO pay incentives reflect board priorities—and its still shareholder returns
While there are signs of change, our research shows that shareholder primacy continues to underpin performance-related CEO pay.
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NEWS: Remuneration, 6 January, 2021
CEO pay: FTSE 100 bosses earn median annual wage in 34 hours
By 5.30pm today the average FTSE 100 CEO will have earned as much as a worker on median pay makes in a year.
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NEWS: Board expertise, 5 January, 2021
Foreign audit committee members linked to low-quality financial reporting
Swedish research concludes that appointing foreign directors to an audit committee can undermine the quality of financial reporting.
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NEWS: Remuneration, 18 December, 2020
Pay ratio reports: boards challenged to reveal how they will use data
A study from the High Pay Centre on pay ratio reports has prompted calls for significant governance reforms in pay and worker representation.
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NEWS: Investors, 15 December, 2020
NBIM set to publish voting intentions five days before company AGMs
The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund cites greater transparency as the motive for the policy change, after an earlier pledge to publish voting rationales.
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COMMENT: Ethics, 11 December, 2020
Australian parliamentary report slams Rio Tinto board and culture
Investigation concludes the relationship between the Rio Tinto board and CEO was a key factor in the Juukan Gorge scandal.
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INSIGHT: Strategy, 11 December, 2020
It’s time for sustainability to be the big issue in the boardroom
While progress is being made, the primary measure of performance for most boards and investors largely remains short-term earnings.
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NEWS: Board responsibilities, 10 December, 2020
‘Unfriendly’ boards served better information by CEOs
Empire-building CEOs prepare more informative reports on investment projects when faced with unfriendly boards, research reveals.
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NEWS: Corporate governance, 10 December, 2020
Sacha Sadan: ‘Good companies have always thought about these issues’
Forget the buzzwords, says LGIM's Sacha Sadan. Stewardship has always been central to effective governance—firms now need to articulate it.
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PODCAST: Governance, 9 December, 2020
LGIM’s Sacha Sadan on stewardship and sustainability
We talk to Sacha Sadan, LGIM's director of investment stewardship and one of the industry’s most influential thinkers on corporate governance.
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NEWS: Legislation, 8 December, 2020
‘Future generations’ clause in section 172 could boost sustainability
Researchers argue a “system change” in favour of sustainability needs stronger regulation to hold directors to account.
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NEWS: Research, 4 December, 2020
Evidence builds for introduction of new audit committee standards
Financial Reporting Council says new report "lends weight to proposals for reforms in the audit sector", including new standards for committees.
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NEWS: Gender diversity, 2 December, 2020
Shareholder pressure gets women directors on US boards
Study reveals that recent campaigns by BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard have significantly increased the number of women on US boards.