Governance
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NEWS: ESG and executive pay, 17 January, 2024
ESG performance ‘now an integral factor in executive pay’
Research shows US companies with higher revenues focus on ESG factors when determining C-suite incentive plans.
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WEBINAR: Boardroom decision-making, 11 January, 2024
Automated boardroom decision-making will ‘always need humans’
Despite the growth in data analytics and AI, human intervention will always be essential, a recent webinar heard.
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NEWS: Governance, 11 January, 2024
Post Office scandal inquiry to scrutinise governance
Investigation into wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters appoints experts to report on culture and leadership.
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NEWS: Technology, 10 January, 2024
Boards are ‘inundated with data’ and face growing compliance risks
Organisations are struggling to achieve the data literacy that would empower their decision-making, new survey reveals.
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NEWS: Investor relations, 9 January, 2024
European investors lead the US on ESG demands
But American investors are more likely to disclose their shareholder activism than EU counterparts, recent research reveals.
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NEWS: CEO pay, 5 January, 2024
Executive pay gap widens further
Top CEOs will have earned more than a typical UK worker’s median annual pay by lunchtime on 4 January, thinktank estimates.
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COMMENT: Governance outlook 2024, 2 January, 2024
What’s in store in 2024?
In what may prove an ‘interesting time’ for boards, this year’s governance challenges include reporting changes, sustainability and AI.
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NEWS: Governance, 21 December, 2023
Governance in 2023: a step into the spotlight
In 2023, governance became an issue for us all: ESG is now a loaded term, while the spectre of AI is raising everyone’s game.
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NEWS: Governance, 21 December, 2023
News round-up: this week in governance
ClientEarth sends fossil fuel warning; Tennessee sues BlackRock; PwC seeks independent directors; the positive impact of altruistic CEOs.
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NEWS: London Stock Exchange, 20 December, 2023
FCA kills off ‘premium’ stock exchange listing category
Organisations listed in the new ‘commercial companies’ category must report on their UK Corporate Governance Code compliance.
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NEWS: Executive pay, 19 December, 2023
UK chief executive pay gap widens
In the FTSE 350, the median chief executive’s pay was 57 times that of the median employee in 2022, up from 56:1 the previous year.
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INSIGHT: AGM trends, 18 December, 2023
What are your investors thinking?
The 2023 AGM season revealed that executive pay and long-term incentive awards are hot issues for European company shareholders.
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NEWS: Audit market, 14 December, 2023
Big Four continue to dominate audit market
FRC review of audit market competition reveals 98% market share that ‘leaves little room for challengers to emerge’.
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NEWS: Sustainability reporting, 13 December, 2023
Railpen backs sustainability reporting standards
The UK pension fund notes in voting guidelines that the ISSB reporting standards IFRS S1 and S2 should be seen as a ‘minimum’.
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NEWS: Female CEOs, 12 December, 2023
Women blocked from FTSE 100 CEO career path
Nearly half of chief executives progress via the role of divisional head, but less than a fifth of divisional leads are female, study finds.
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COMMENT: Autumn statement, 11 December, 2023
Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement misses a trick
Where are the proposals to reinvigorate the London Stock Exchange and boost both public and private UK equity markets?
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NEWS: Governance, 7 December, 2023
‘Workers on boards’ idea is back on the table
European-style two-tier board system may help to end stagnation in the UK, reports the Resolution Foundation.
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NEWS: Artificial intelligence, 7 December, 2023
Avoiding AI catastrophe is ‘beyond corporate governance’
It is ‘inevitable’ that the risks from artificial intelligence require public governance, according to a corporate governance expert.
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NEWS: Governance, 30 November, 2023
Proxy adviser warns LSE over governance
Abolishing the public register of shareholder revolts ‘won’t stop capital providers exercising their democratic rights’, letter states.
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NEWS: Sustainability , 28 November, 2023
Sustainability governance is on the rise
But despite greater corporate attention being paid to ESG, directors’ engagement with it is losing momentum, global report finds.