Index August 2003
Comment
Savers deserve to see voting records
Richard Northedge
The columns of coverage in newspapers’ business pages of issues such as executive pay (and executive pay-offs) or the
independence of chairmen suggest that the private investor has a keen interest in corporate governance, even if that is not necessarily the term the
ordinary reader would use.
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Governance
Proxy poll review
Voting levels stay flat despite pay resolution
Voting levels at FTSE 100 annual meetings have failed
to increase, despite the introduction of mandatory remuneration report
resolutions.
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Combined Code
Changed wording welcomed
Institutional investors are urged to avoid a 'box-ticking' approach to assessing a company's corporate governance in the
revised
Combined Code published by the
Financial Reporting Council (FRC) which builds on the recommendations of the Higgs review.
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Trade & Industry select committee
MPs listen to views on pay
As the peak of the AGM season drew to a close there continued to be debates over contracts and potentially big gains for
directors.
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Trades Union Congress
Survey finds varying voting strategies
In the first of its
annual surveys into fund manager voting policies and voting records the
Trades Union Congress (TUC) expressed the hope that in future years the response rate of 20% would be improved.
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Company law
Hewitt outlines legislation plans
The
Department of Trade & Industry (DTI), has spelled out the government's plans for company law changes in a
written statement to
parliament.
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ICGN
Governance message must be spread to all
Commercial fund managers have to be convinced of the value of corporate governance Alastair Ross Goobey, chairman of the
International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), emphasised to delegates attending the organisation's annual
conference in Amsterdam last month. More >>
Corporate Social Responsibility
Business in the Community
CSR reporting indicators published
A set of indicators for companies wanting to measure and report on their social and environmental impact has been published
by
Business in the Community.
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Governance in brief.....
Investment trusts produce own code
The UK's
Association of Investment Trust Companies has produced a set of principles to provide investment trusts with an
alternative
corporate governance code to the revised
Combined Code.
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CSR in brief.....
SRI survey results announced
HSBC Securities won the award for the best brokerage
firm for socially responsible investment (SRI) analysis in the first
Thomson Extel fund manager survey on SRI conducted in association with the
UK Social Investment Forum.
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Conferences
Topical governance and CSR-related conferences.
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