10 December, 2020

Sacha Sadan: ‘Good companies have always thought about these issues’

Sacha Sadan, director of investment stewardship at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM), says boards are feeling a “seismic change”. Speaking to Board Agenda for

9 December, 2020

LGIM’s Sacha Sadan on stewardship and sustainability

In our latest podcast we interview Sacha Sadan, director of investment stewardship at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) and one of fund management’s most influential thinkers on corpora...

16 December, 2019

Global leadership on sustainability requires greener boards

By now all major companies have some sort of policy on sustainability and/or environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. There is mounting pressure on boards of directors from shareholders, cus...

3 May, 2019

The outlook for governance in 2019

This could be a significant year in the development of governance. Among the big topics in 2019, boards need to get to grips with cybersecurity, manage the changing nature of engagement and come to te...

16 April, 2019

Shareholders focus attention on diversity and climate

If you are a company chair and fail to ensure your board is diverse you can bet some significant shareholders will now vote against your reappointment. That’s the message this week from Legal and...

10 April, 2019

The gendered corporation

In the wake of the most recent economic crash, popular analysts looked at the gender of those involved in corporate governance and asked whether the recession would have happened if there were more wo...

14 February, 2019

Establishing vision and values in financial services

The global financial crisis had at its heart a failure of governance and oversight. Controls were ineffective, non-executives did not challenge and relationships broke down with regulators. Boards ...

9 November, 2018

The gender pay gap is closing – but the UK is behind

There has been progress—of a sort—in gender pay. At the executive end of the spectrum, the pay gap has squeezed in the UK to 12.5%, compared with 21.5% in Leathwaite’s previous Pay Index study. ...

12 October, 2018

Books every board should have on its shelf this autumn

5 October, 2018

Tomorrow’s leadership, today: nurturing future leaders

If you want the best board in town, look for inspiration to Broadway, home to the world’s greatest musicals, such as Hello Dolly, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, South Pacific and...