Corporate governance - Vigil

The Royal Bank of Canada and WestJet are partnering on a new loyalty platform.

By WPP’s standards, a 29.5% vote against the remuneration report almost counts as a decent result for the board. Back in 2012, the figure was 60%. In 2016, when the former chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell scooped his £70m, it was 34%.

he summit in Charlevoix left behind a Group of Seven in complete disarray. The authors think that the G-group, in its current formulation, no longer has a reason to exist, and it should be replaced with a more representative group of countries. In this fast-changing world, is the G7 only a relic of the past?

New corporate governance principles for private companies is revealed as new reporting requirements are laid before Parliament.

Resist the urge to levy tariffs that disproportionately punish Trump voters — it might just make everything worse

Introduced May 10, HR 5756 would require the SEC to adjust resubmission thresholds for shareholder proposals. The language mirrors that of the Financial CHOICE Act in calling for substantial increases to the level of support required for proposals to stay on the ballot: the threshold for first-year submissions would double from 3% to 6% support; more than double from 6% to 15% for second-year, and treble from 10% to 30% in the third-year.

Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of 50 million Facebook users to help swing the US presidential election, but amid the trend for corporate governance ‘narratives’, did Facebook’s directors forget the chapter on ethics?

Most skilled painters choose to harness the power of the entire colour spectrum to create compelling masterpieces. If all artists chose instead to only use one brush and one colour, our art galleries would be filled with flat, monochromatic paintings lacking vibrancy and movement. So why have we accepted for so long that leadership that represents only one dimension can create necessary depth and movement in our communities?

Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp has proposed a $10.7 billion financing plan and nominated eight board members in a drastic management overhaul, as it seeks to rebuild a business crippled by a U.S. supplier ban.

Carlos Ghosn is likely to step down as chief executive of Renault before his term ends in 2022, the long-serving car boss has told the Financial Times.

Responsible investment is a critical step in the move towards sustainable economies. But are asset owners and managers really integrating ESG principles into their practices?

While the relationship between strong core values and company performance is difficult to demonstrate empirically, we can point to a few organizations who’ve gotten it right and prospered for it. We’ve also seen companies with little to no emphasis on core values proceed down a less desirable path.

Investment manager Legal & General Investment Management increases pressure on companies over climate change by naming those it has disinvested from.

Iqvia Holdings Inc. is hardly a household name, but its boss made more last year than the chief executive of Johnson & Johnson —or any other big pharmaceutical or biotech company.

Same-store sales — a key retail measure of sales for stores open at least a year — decreased seven per cent