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H&R Block
US financial services company H&R Block has been through a governance overhaul recently. No doubt in no small part due to the presence of ex-SEC chair and activist investor Richard Breeden on the board, following his election at last year’s AGM, the company has pushed through a string of welcome changes.
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Getting behind the labels
In recent years health issues such as the nutritional content of food, sedentary lifestyles and obesity have started to appear on the radars of responsible investors. It’s also become an increasingly high-profile political issue in part due to popular campaigns like TV chef Jamie Oliver’s programme Jamie’s School Dinners.
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Directors’ £200k pensions
Directors of the UK's top companies can retire on pensions of over £200,000 a year, according to the TUC’s annual PensionsWatch survey. The survey analyses the pension arrangements of 346 directors from 102 of the UK's top companies and shows that directors of the UK’s biggest companies have amassed pension pots that average around £3 million each, providing an annual pension of £201,700 a year - 25 times the average workplace pension that ordinary workers receive (£8,100). Directors with the greatest entitlements at each company have average pension pots of £5.2million and can expect a pension of £333,400 a year.
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