Having their say
A new voice joins the vigorous compensation debate amongst proxy advisory services, shareholder activists and corporations in the...
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Boardroom archive
Compliance programs as quality control
Corporations face growing demands not only to comply with all the laws and regulations that apply to their business but also to...
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Advancing the paperless revolution
Despite more than 40 years of dematerialization, many paper stock certificates still circulate on numerous exchanges. This might...
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A good working relationship
With many other parts of the increasingly complex shareholder communication and services business, the world of stock transfer is...
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Surviving the fallout
It seems that every time a company makes a move, or doesn’t for that matter, it faces a new risk. If it’s not regulators passing...
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Annual madness
With the advent of the internet and the development of webcasts and conference calls, are annual general meetings really relevant...
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Wealth leverage: a key governance tool
With pay disclosures now commonly running 5,000 words or more, top management pay programs are astonishingly complex. As a result...
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New obstacles to setting the tone
It is widely accepted today that boards of directors and senior management must set the ethical ‘tone at the top’ at their...
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The cost of being fired
Investors and analysts were braced for the impact an executive termination package would have on Marsh & McLennan’s (MMC)...
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Race to the top
The fourth Corporate Secretary East Coast Think Tank held in May again attracted a high caliber of senior compliance and...
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