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Corporate Governance News This section on Corporate Governance provides investors with the latest topical news plus some informal comments and insights from ShareSoc’s directors and other contributors.
That is surely an appropriate headline to follow the selection of Theresa May as Prime Minister designate. That was particularly so when she promised to attack the company…
Read moreOne of my contacts has questioned what is happening in the bid for brewer SABMiller by AB Inbev. Here is what he had to say: “The concern raised…
Read moreThe result is in, and the people have spoken. We will now leave the EU, unless of course there is some more re-negotiation or other fudge which would…
Read moreSo 33% of investors in WPP voted against Sir Martin Sorrell’s pay package of £70 million for last year at yesterday’s AGM which made him the highest paid…
Read moreShareSoc has issued the following press release today: The AIM market run by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has been criticised by many people for the quality of…
Read moreI published a report on the Rolls-Royce Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the last ShareSoc newsletter and also here. I wrote to the Chairman after the meeting complaining…
Read moreShareSoc has issued the following press release on its new Remuneration Guidelines. These Guidelines have been developed by ShareSoc Director Cliff Weight who has substantial experience in these…
Read moreToday I attended the Annual General Meeting of The Restaurant Group for the first time – held in the City of London at 10.00 am. There were about…
Read morePre-Emption rights are a very positive feature of the UK stock market scene. They prevent companies from issuing shares without existing shareholder consent, except to a limited extent.…
Read moreShareSoc slams London Stock Exchange over AIM failures – that was the title of a press release which ShareSoc has issued after the LSE Group’s AGM which was…
Read moreThe affairs of Lakehouse where major investors Slater Investments and Steve Rawlings have requisitioned an EGM to remove and replace the non-executive directors has been covered in previous…
Read moreWhile the debate over the EU and its bureaucracy is so topical, it’s worth taking a look at the latest public consultation on an EU Directive that needs to…
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