All Corporate governance articles
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NewsDanish pension funds tackle Amazon on labour rights
Sampension, PenSam and PKA call on retail giant to clarify move against New York trade union
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ISSB to require businesses to report Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions
‘I think it is really important that we have it on the public record that we are not just agreeing to (a) [and] (b) ‘cold’,’ says Sue Lloyd
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Nordic, English pension funds take VW to court over lobbying silence
Swedish national pension funds, Denmark’s AkademikerPension and Church of England Pensions take legal action against carmaker to ‘clarify grey area for corporate law in Germany‘
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AP7 leaders argue investors should stick with high emitters
Swedish pensions giant says transition companies will be a top priority for several years
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Greater Manchester’s tax transparency proposal for Cisco to be put to vote
The proposal calls for Cisco to publish a tax transparency report aligned with the GRI Tax Standard
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Norway’s SWF joins ESMA in call for pragmatism in EU corporate sustainability rules
NBIM advocates fewer disclosure metrics and more focus on key data likely to be valuable to users
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PFA sues Meta, alleging firm gave market misleading information
Danish pension fund says US social media giant has duty to prevent proliferation of misinformation or harmful content
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Norway’s SWF manager pushes for companies to set science-based targets
Smith Ihenacho pens response to UK’s blueprint for company transition plans, ‘broadly agreeing’ with principles, key elements
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AP7 co-files Tesla resolution on workers’ rights
‘Tesla must also have confidence that the company has effective human capital management systems,’ says Nia Impact Capital in proposal
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NEST’s pay gaps shrink but CEO says UK trust ‘still on our journey’
Gender pay gap contracts by 1.4 percentage points, ethnicity pay gap 1.3 points smaller between years
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Norway’s SWF slates Swedish code for letting CEOs sit on boards
Domestic and Nordic part of GPF says executive remuneration proved most contentious issue in this year’s AGM season
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Railpen, US investor group team up for equal voting rights campaign
Hope that new coalition ‘will mark a turning point in the dual-class share structure debate’ and avoid ‘long-term corporate governance trainwreck’
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Elo released from FSA’s direct monitoring after 18 months of scrutiny
CEO says Elo worked hard to ensure business model reached the level required by the Swedish financial watchdog
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PFA takes floor at Total AGM, after narrowing oil and gas exposure to two firms
Danish pensions giant says French multinational must go faster in green transition
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AkademikerPension to focus on human rights, tax at Meta, Amazon AGMs
Danish pension fund CIO says much more transparency needed in many of Facebook’s business areas
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AkademikerPension decries lack of transparency around executive pay
Danish pension fund voted down most remuneration policies at domestic AGMs; Norway’s SWF chief also complains about opaque setting of executive pay internationally
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Features
Investors sceptical on Tokyo equity market reforms
In April, the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) implemented its biggest overhaul in over 60 years in an attempt to attract foreign investors. However, many industry experts see the move as largely symbolic and believe more needs to be done to create a roster of high-quality companies with strong corporate governance practices.
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Opinion Pieces
Shareholder action to curb corporate lobbying is urgent
Corporate lobbying has always existed, but only in recent times have investors concerned with sustainability started to monitor the impact of the lobbying activities of their investee companies.
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VW blocks latest shareholder proposal on climate lobbying
Carmaker rejects latest shareholder proposal on the basis that it deems it beyond the competence of the general meeting
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AP7, CEPB lean on VW and Australian firms over climate lobbying
Swedish, Danish and UK pension funds demand increased climate lobbying transparency from German carmaker Volkswagen
