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...Institutional Shareholder Services, another high-profile shareholder adviser, is recommending shareholders vote in favour of Abrdn’s proposals at its meeting....
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...Abrdn dropped out of the FTSE 100 last August, and its shares have fallen by a fifth over the past year, underperforming its peers....
...The package will be put to a shareholder vote at the company’s annual meeting on May 1. “The reception among investors is more open now than it would have been two years ago,” said Soames....
...The UK has placed more than 1,600 individuals and companies under sanctions since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022....
...Shareholders of the London Stock Exchange Group have approved doubling the pay of its chief executive to £13.1mn, making David Schwimmer one of the top-paid FTSE 100 bosses....
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...AstraZeneca shareholders approved a potential £1.8mn pay rise for chief executive Pascal Soriot, despite a significant investor revolt against a pay increase advisers had called “excessive”....
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...Since Engstrom became chief executive in 2009, its share price has soared 650 per cent — from about 465p to more than 3,489p — and total shareholder returns (reinvesting dividends) have been more than 1,000...
...The more equity capital a bank has, the harder it becomes to generate a high ROE, as simple math dictates. So that could mean lower bonuses for executives....
...Shares in DS Smith were down 1.7 per cent at 403p on Tuesday. Mondi declined to comment....
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...the merits of returning capital to shareholders....
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