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Speedy reform at Northgate

It was only in June that the Financial Reporting Council issued the revised Corporate Governance Code, including the recommendation that FTSE350 companies adopt annual elections for all directors...
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Mind the pay gap

We’ve commented previously in about the ramifications of the widening pay gap between executives and other employees. The FT...
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No appetite for M&A reform?

In the run-up to the general election, the rules governing takeovers became a minor political story. After the anger at the Kraft-Cadbury deal, both Labour and the Lib Dems floated proposals to...
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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

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