Corporate governance – Page 81
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Pension Fund Governance: Avoid the bear traps
UK pension funds are increasing governance levels as they implement regulatory guidance on integrated risk management, says Pádraig Floyd. Professional trustees are playing a greater role
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Features
Pension Fund Governance: ABP to the ballot box
For the first time, the €309bn Dutch civil servants fund has held elections for its accountability body. More controversially, pensioners will now sit on the main board, writes Mariska van der Westen
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Corporate Governance: Cultural shift
The UK Stewardship Code, now three years old, was re-visited in the wake of an influential review of UK markets. But Mike Scott finds that there is still a long way to go before the spirit of the Code is embedded in asset management culture
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Corporate Governance: A little less conversation
List all of the fora, working groups, initiatives, statements of principles, codes and associations dedicated to pursuing better corporate governance and other sustainable business and investment goals, and you would think that this was a hive of world-changing activity.
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Corporate Governance: Cash in hand
Cash mountains and share buybacks are a prominent feature of the new corporate environment. Is this investor short-termism constraining productive investment, or good corporate discipline rejecting unproductive spending? Mike Scott investigates
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Corporate Governance: Of carrots and sticks
The executive remuneration debate has evolved considerably since 2012’s Shareholder Spring, writes Nina Röhrbein. But there is considerable disagreement on the right balance between regulation and a voluntary approach
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Corporate Governance: Can’t we all just get along?
Corporate governance thinkers believe peaceful co-existence between activist investors and company boards and management is at hand. Christopher O’Dea finds activism lauded as a valuable corrective mechanism that can improve performance
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Corporate Governance: Springing into action
It has been two years since the so-called Shareholder Spring, which saw a large number of investors voting against company proposals. Nina Röhrbein asks whether the movement maintained momentum, and how corporate governance has developed as a result
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News
Trustees take months to decide on new asset class – Aon Hewitt
Aon Hewitt, Pitmans Trustees urge trustee boards to delegate powers for faster responses.
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Do we expect too much of trustees?
Brian Holden argues that the current model of the part-time, non-specialist trustee cannot continue indefinitely
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Features
Communicating through cultural differences
Europe, we are assured, is a family of nations. Yet in spite of the best endeavours of those such as Esperantists, it remains a family where there is still no single, truly universal, language. Inevitably, there are times when communication difficulties arise. Most companies of any reasonable size have a ...
