Corporate governance - Vigil

Short-sellers were up almost $2.61 billion, or 26.32 per cent mark-to-market, from March 1 to Tuesday morning

Open letter from the Investment Association details how members will help to “keep corporate Britain working”, with guidance on executive pay, dividends and financial reporting.

From airlines to car makers, companies are planning to gear up again. The new normal will look anything but.

Japanese technology investor has thrown money at startups like WeWork and Uber, but that approach is fast running out of road

Deal will give Massachusetts biotech company cash needed to bring more products to market

Good corporate governance is essential in the modern world and relies on fostering strong investor relations and positive shareholder engagement

More than 400,000 people in Ontario lost their jobs in March amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by Statistics Canada.

WestJet says it plans to bring back nearly 6,400 employees on to its payroll with the help of Ottawa’s emergency wage subsidy program.

With price gouging, morality trumps economics

In the first of an FT video interview series on the impact of the pandemic, the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation speaks to the FT's Vanessa Kortekaas about how countries need to tackle the virus, why developing countries will be worse affected and how to prevent the world from being caught off guard by another pandemic

A by-the-numbers look at the outbreak's economic toll in terms of guidance withdrawn, dividends cut, buybacks scrapped and workers furloughed

Severity is unmatched by anything aside from Great Depression, according to IMF outlook

For Renault, the onset of the coronavirus epidemic snuffed out its bid to become a mainstream brand in China

Governments stiffen defenses of domestic businesses vulnerable to bargain hunting during economic downturn

Since the start of the unprecedented public health and economic crisis caused by COVID-191, directors may have felt tempted to intervene in the day-to-day management of the company or to step into a management role, especially if they are also shareholders.

The world economy has suffered through four major peacetime disruptions in the last 100 years. First came the Great Depression of the 1930s, when credit froze, investment dried up and employment plummeted. Next came the oil shocks of the 1970s, when the era of cheap energy ended abruptly.

In recent years, virtual annual shareholder meetings have gained some traction, yet largely remain an unpopular format for most investors. The COVID-19 pandemic will force hundreds of companies to shift their annual meetings to virtual-only or hybrid formats this proxy season. Do companies have the resources or the regulatory permissions to make this shift?

Nationally, the daily growth in identified COVID-19 cases has slowed down. But within Canada, case counts remain a problematic metric

Some economists are calling for an increase, but there are hurdles in the way

As we head into proxy season – the time of year when most companies hold their annual general meetings – shareholders at publicly listed corporations will be asked to vote on how the board has decided to compensate its C-suite.

Firms that make it through will face a new business climate