Remuneration

Company News

14 Apr 2016 / Company News

BP Remuneration Vote Lost

BP had 59% of shareholders voting AGAINST the Remuneration Resolution at their Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 14/4/2016 (and that’s ignoring the abstentions which some institutions like to…

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Corporate Governance

21 Oct 2015 / Corporate Governance

After the Storm, at the High Pay Centre

I attended a seminar organised by the High Pay Centre last night on the new public company pay regulations introduced two years ago. Speakers were Vince Cable who…

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Corporate Governance

17 Sep 2015 / Corporate Governance

Corbynomics, Director Remuneration and Voting

The media is full of analyses of late of the impact of the new Labour front bench and the policies of the key players such as Shadow Chancellor…

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Company News

8 Sep 2015 / Company News

Amlin and Glencore – Market surprises, but not at Berkeley

This morning a takeover bid for insurer Amlin was announced by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance. A cash offer of 670p which represents a premium of 34.5% to last nights…

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ShareSoc

26 Aug 2015

Corbyn to tackle the High Pay issue?

You know when a challenge for the leadership of the Labour Party is becoming credible when the person gets profiled in the Financial Times. Yes Jeremy Corbyn is…

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Company News

8 Jul 2015 / Company News

Unhappy Shareholders at Sea Energy, Vislink and Blinkx

Perhaps it was the hot weather, or that folks have more time to spare in the summer holiday season, but shareholders in three smaller companies have been stirred…

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Corporate Governance

4 Jun 2015 / Corporate Governance

The Wonders of LTIPs, Pay at WPP and the Sprue Aegis AGM

Yesterday (3/6/2015), I attended the Annual General Meeting of Sprue Aegis (SPRP). Before discussing what was said at that meeting, it’s worth reviewing a recently issued report by…

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Company News

15 May 2015 / Company News

Alliance Trust Stocktrade Acquisition and Sexism in the City

Yesterday (15/5/2015), Alliance Trust announced the acquisition of the Stocktrade service from Brewin Dolphin which will be integrated into the Alliance Trust Savings (ATS) subsidiary. The acquisition will…

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Company News

6 May 2015 / Company News

Shareholder voting, remuneration and BG Group

Manifest, a proxy advisory service, have reported on the voting at Annual General Meetings recently. It was good to read that there was significant opposition to the change…

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Company News

9 Apr 2015 / Company News

Shell & BG Group Deal – Not Everyone’s Happy

(Pay packages and short termism at BG Group and Amec Foster Wheeler) Shareholders in BG Group should surely be happy. The offer from Shell values their shares at…

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ShareSoc

6 Feb 2015

High Pay Centre Launch Fat Cat Competition

The High Pay Centre have launched a competition to emphasise the huge amounts now paid to the Chief Executives of large public companies. It’s called the Fantasy Fatcat…

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Company News

1 Dec 2014 / Company News

ShareSoc Welcomes BG Group Decision but calls on Sir John Hood to Resign

ShareSoc is delighted by today’s news that BG Group has decided to withdraw the conditional share award that was proposed for new CEO Helge Lund. This is a…

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