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JPM risk committee takes the hit

In the end, the vote to split the roles of chair and chief executive at JP Morgan, currently both held by Jamie Dimon, was lower than expected. But the scale of shareholder...
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Investors’ Bangladesh concerns

Stakeholders can not agree on how to tackle the string of factory incidents in Bangladesh. Investors, meanwhile, demand companies take steps to improve worker safety and protect...
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UK AGM results round-up

As noted earlier, Chime Communications saw a majority of shareholders fail to back two...
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PIRC is in the DNA of the good corporate governance

“Let’s not forget how quickly yesterday’s heresy can become today’s mainstream opinion. Ten years ago PIRC was portrayed as pursuing a radical agenda. Now much of what PIRC said in the past is in the DNA of UK corporate governance. Back then many fund managers did not even vote, now the large majority do, and many try and vote intelligently rather than routinely supporting management.“
Brendan Barber
General Secretary, Trades Union Congress, October 2003