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Tag: stewardship code

controlling shareholders

The politics and geopolitics of controlling shareholders

Shareholders with a controlling interest influence not only financial matters but can also wield great power over policy and politics.

internal controls

UK boards face internal controls shake-up

The government’s reform proposals include seeking disclosures from many non-financial public interest entities.

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‘Poor’ proxy advisers ‘stifle’ investor stewardship

Many chairs believe the focus on compliance has led to the board’s relationship with institutional investors deteriorating, report finds.

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News round-up: this week in governance

Tax transparency; huge response to climate reporting proposals; corporate influence on regulations; EU human rights due diligence directive.

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UK stewardship code ‘has not changed the nature of investor engagement’

Academic says the revised code requires “mandatory legal or regulatory impositions” if it is to remain relevant.

investors, stock markets, stewardship

New stewardship code shifts emphasis to disclosures and ‘outcomes’

A new stewardship code for investors seeks to answer criticism that it was too focused on policy with little attention to outcomes.

Asset owners should ‘enforce’ ongoing investor engagement

Stewardship requires more active investor engagement enforced by asset owners to achieve best long-term returns, argues respected academic Professor Alex Edmans.

Stewardship Code, FRC website

Investors improve reporting under Stewardship Code, says FRC

Governance watchdog sees improvement in the transparency of investors’ approach to engaging with companies, and in their reporting.

India, stewardship code

India to reform stewardship code

The Financial Stability and Development Council of India, a body chaired by the country’s Union finance minister, has proposed that a panel of financial regulators be formed to develop a new stewardship code for investors.

Stephen Haddrill, FRC

FRC holds fund managers to account under Stewardship Code

Financial regulator catagorises signatories to the Stewardship Code, as it praises much improved reporting against the Code and greater transparency in the UK market.

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