Corporate governance – Page 96
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Special Report
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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Special Report
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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Special Report
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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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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Special Report
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 ...
