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Proxy voting
SPLIT SEC BACKS PROXY ACCESS FOR SHAREHOLDERS
...The US Securities and Exchange Commission needed to do something on corporate governance under the Dodd-Frank Act on financial regulation. What it decided was to give institutional investors the ability to nominate candidates for the boards of the companies in which they invest. It's not a simple...
28 August 2010
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Governance in practice
ASIL NADIR RETURNS FROM EXILE – WHAT NEXT IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE?
The failure of his corporation was one of the proximate causes of the wave of new measures around the world on corporate governance, and he's back. Asil Nadir was CEO and major shareholder in a company known as Polly Peck International, briefly one of the top 100 companies on the London Stock Exchan...
28 August 2010
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Shareholder activism
CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE IN UK-US BOARD PRACTICE?
...In the US shareholders have very few rights. Most votes are merely advisory, and the plurality system of director elections means anyone the board nominates will get elected, whatever shareholders think. In the UK, by contrast, shareholder votes are binding on management, and while investors have...
27 August 2010
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Board composition
SHORTAGE OF DIRECTORS, OR SHORTAGE OF INSIGHT?
...The ...Financial Times... published a news story with an alarming message: the new UK Corporate Governance Code would lead to an "acute short supply" of non-executive directors. The 2010 code makes quite a lot of changes from the version that has been in place, more or less the same, since 2003, ...
10 August 2010
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Non-financial reporting
INITIATIVE FOR INTEGRATED FINANCIAL AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTS
...It may be based in the UK and it may have started with work of the Prince of Wales, but don't let that get in the way. This initiative, called the International Integrated Reporting Committee, comes with kind words from the Global Reporting Initiative, the International Organization of Securities...
07 August 2010
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Audit
FRANCE REVAMPS GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE ON AUDIT PARTNER ROTATION
The French institute of statutory auditors, known as the Compagnie Nationale des Commissaires aux Comptes, has issued a revised guide of good professional practice concerning on audit, ...putting into practice European Union law... concerning the regular rotation of audit partners. It gives details ...
07 August 2010
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Governance codes
NO 'NO-GO' AREAS FOR EFFECTIVE BOARDS – ICSA
...What makes an effective board? There's a lot of anecdotal evidence and a few insightful academic studies. The stories you hear from directors are limited the handful of companies any individual could have managed to serve. Scholarly work presents problems of access in a different way: the ...reme...
06 August 2010
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Board composition
CREDIT RATINGS SUGGEST OPTIMAL LEVEL OF BOARD INDEPENDENCE
It seems there can be too much of a good thing. Board independence has been seen around the world as a remedy for the ailments of corporate governance, especially since the collapse of Enron in 2001. According to an account of the "natural experiment" that arose with the adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxl...
31 July 2010
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Corporate social responsibility
CORPORATE 'GOODNESS' MAY NOT BE BEST
Calls for corporate social responsibility – especially on companies working in emerging economies – come think and fast. From philanthropic giving to more instrumental community-building actions to benefit the workforce, such measures are often called good corporate citizenship. A discussion paper, ...
31 July 2010
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Audit
UK AUDITORS UNDER SPOTLIGHT FOR ROLE IN CREDIT CRISIS
The Financial Reporting Council in the UK has set up an inquiry into the role auditors have played in the credit crisis and how it affected companies other than those in the financial services. It what amounts to an advanced ...warning of a discussion paper to come... in the next few months, the FRC...
31 July 2010
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