Corporate Governance, News and Updates on Corporate Governance

Before the late-2001 financial implosion at Enron " Fortune's 7th largest of the famed 500 " resulted literally in the disappearance of that Houston-based corporation, and before the largest corporate bankruptcy filing in history " WorldCom in 2002 " few people in the United States regularly used the term "corporate governance."

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News & Updates

March 12, 2010 Top ESG Issues for 2010 Proxy Season: Climate Change, Toxics and the Impact of Natural Gas 'Fracking' on the Water Supply

Source:RiskMetrics

Environmental questions are receiving a lot of attention from shareholders during the spring US proxy season, including 39 resolutions about global climate change. Other prominent shareholder concerns include the impact of...

March 12, 2010 Calpers May Challenge Companies on Board Elections

Source:BusinessWeek

-- The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the biggest state-run U.S. public pension, may use its financial clout to force BlackRock Inc., News Corp, and other companies where it has large holdings to change the way...

March 12, 2010 CRD Analytics and Trucost Expand Partnership

Source:CRD

New York, NY —CRD Analytics (CRDA), LLC and Trucost PLC announced the signing of a new partnership agreement that will enhance and expand the SmartViewTM platform and provide greater transparency of environmental impact on...[more]

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Research & Insights

March 5, 2010 Women still under-represented in the boardroom: Survey

Source:Montreal Gazette

OTTAWA — A survey pointing to a dearth of female corporate directors suggests it's high time Canada's top companies opened their boardroom doors wider to women. As the 100th anniversary of the first International Women's Day is...

March 3, 2010 Corporate governance standards drop - report

Source:Businance and Finance

The number of companies claiming full compliance with the combined code on corporate governance has dropped from 51 per cent to 36 per cent, according to the annual Grant Thornton Corporate Governance Review published today

March 2, 2010 Companies Exposed to Water Risks Are Providing Investors With Too Little Data

Source:Social Funds.com

Global water scarcity has become a material business risk about which investors need information, to the extent that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) included a reference to the issue in its recent interpretive...

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Commentary & Opinion

March 11, 2010 Righting a Wrong - Let Shareholders, Not CEOs, Decide How Corporate Money Is Spent on Politics

Source:Public Citizen

WASHINGTON - March 10 - Irresponsible corporate governance has become a plague on the U.S. economy and soon will become a plague on our political system as well. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Supreme...[more]

March 11, 2010 Be Careful of Bestowing Increased Rights to Shareholders

Source:Seeking Alpha

Greater Shareholder Rights Coming are obviously on the way. The question now is what form those increased rights will take, and what the consequences will be for publicly-traded companies and their management. Tara Siegel Bernard...

March 9, 2010 Analyzing ‘Corporate Risk Oversight Principles’

Source:Compliance Week.com

It’s way too early for nostalgia about the financial crisis. But one of the most telling anecdotes coming out of this period was from John Thain, remarking to the Wall Street Journal on his time as CEO of Merrill Lynch. “Merrill...

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