12 May 2017
Ahead of this year's shareholder meeting season, investors predicted more fiery and confrontational exchanges than in previous years, as they prepared to take a stand against high executive pay.
19 March 2017
The acquisition of Fortress, the US asset manager, for
13 February 2017
Several of the world's most powerful shareholders are planning to take even tougher action on excessive bonuses for company bosses in 2017 after investor protests over executive pay reached a five-year high last year.
13 February 2017
Twitter is a broad church. Its congregation includes autocratically inclined presidents sounding off to millions, and friends indulging in online banter. It should not come as a shock, then, that one pew is occupied by evangelists for a radically different ownership model.
12 February 2017
03 December 2016
Politicians have threatened to clamp down on business behaviour and boardroom pay for decades
28 November 2016
20 November 2016
The Hunger Games, the do-or-die series of teenage films, may be a model for corporate succession planning, according to some of
16 November 2016
The company that is changing driving owns no cars; the one that has the hotel industry on the run owns no rooms. Such are the standard tributes to the radical business models of Uber and Airbnb. Something else they lack, despite putative valuations of
14 November 2016
Investment groups are facing a corporate governance crackdown as pressure mounts on the way asset managers vote on pay and monitor issues such as board independence and company strategy.
13 November 2016
Compliance with the corporate governance code among
30 October 2016
In the unlikely event of ever being asked to name an economist on the TV quiz show Pointless, one could do worse than nominate either of the wonderfully obscure