Corporate governance – Page 60
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More UK trustees add support to climate charter
Industry forum has signed up 76 trustees and pension managers responsible for £367bn of assets in a bid to step up scrutiny of asset managers
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Dutch Pensions Federation clashes with regulator on governance overkill
Industry organisation fears ‘unnecessary and costly’ changes from De Nederlandsche Bank while it is dealing with serious funding problems
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NewsUK Law Commission calls for input on pooled fund voting laws
The Law Commission was asked by the UK government to carry out a study about the system of ‘intermediated securities’
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AP Funds take active role in bid to tackle money laundering
The Swedish state pension buffer funds’ Council on Ethics gathered major banks and regulators together to discuss recent scandals
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Chart of the Week: Companies seeking to address gender imbalance
State Street Global Advisors plans to step up its campaign for more female representation on company boards in the next 12 months
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AP1’s sacked CEO invested personally alongside fund’s IPO deal
Swedish buffer fund chief to receive €595,000 in salary over next 18 months
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UK, Danish pension funds file lobbying resolution against BHP
CEPB and MP Pension among major institutional shareholders demanding that the mining giant abandons lobby groups that operate at odds with the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change
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Joseph Mariathasan: Shareholders or stakeholders?
Corporations are able to operate without the impact of their activities fully priced into their profit and loss statements
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Country ReportThe future of trusteeship
The Pensions Regulator is aiming to tackle poorly run UK pension schemes, and has designs on the role that trustees can play
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Alecta chief urges positive reforms as corporate governance overhaul looms
Magnus Billing hopes the Swedish Corporate Governance Board will take inspiration from the UK’s FRC after it updated its code of practice last year
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NewsAsset manager body hails engagement effect on CEO pay
Analysis on FTSE 100 pay from the High Pay Centre and CIPD shows median CEO remuneration fell 13% to £3.5m from 2017 to 2018
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NewsUS Business Roundtable: A victory for the good guys?
Joseph Mariathasan explores the implications of an influential US business group’s new stance on the purpose of a corporation
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ESG roundup: UK ‘economics of biodiversity’ review kicks into gear
Plus: The US Securities and Exchange Commission is to consider whether or not to publish guidance about the use of proxy advice in the shareholder voting process
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NewsProxy adviser group revises best practice principles
Code of practice updated to introduce new governance, monitoring and reporting structures for proxy advisory companies
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Joseph Mariathasan: Markowitz, Friedman and the crucial debate on ESG
Should the interests of company shareholders trump those of all other stakeholders?
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Denmark’s LD partners with charity for revised ownership policy
LD Pensions has teamed up with UK-based charity Future-Fit Foundation, using its framework to shape the pension fund’s new engagement and ownership policy
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UK regulator toughens stance on poorly performing pension schemes
The UK’s Pensions Regulator (TPR) is seeking to accelerate pension scheme consolidation to raise governance standards. In a consultation paper launched today, TPR said it wanted to ensure all pension savers were in schemes with “excellent standards of governance that deliver good value” – which would mean “fewer but ...
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NewsMP Pension lifts suspension of Macquarie after tax scandal
Australian bank was initially quarantined by the academics pension fund in October 2018 after it was linked to so-called Cum-Ex scandal
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Pension fund ESG integration ‘dangerous’, claims economist
Economist Henrique Schneider splits the audience at a Swiss conference by speaking out against sustainable investment as a fiduciary duty
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NewsNBIM brings Rio Tinto, Walmart back into sovereign fund’s universe
SWF revokes exclusions for list of major stocks also including Rio Tinto, Walmart, General Dynamics and Nutrien
