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The UK Takeover Panel wants less to do
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...Stuart Kirk (“Everyone’s a hypocrite on corporate governance”, Opinion, FT Weekend, January 27) is right in suggesting that, on the evidence of market size alone, high standards of corporate governance are...
...Of course there will always be governance horror shows....
...That is at odds with the UK corporate governance code. But a 15 per cent rise in its share price since the announcement suggests investors are unfazed....
...This may be a test of whether institutional money can take a pragmatic approach on such governance matters....
...But its underlying assumption that corporate governance can be an impediment to economic growth does not....
...Its governance gap is also narrower because it is heavily regulated as a Swedish financial institution....
...these concerns were around when I first wrote about ISS’s growing influence in 2003, in the wake of the collapse of US energy trader Enron, which triggered a surge in demand for impartial advice on good governance...
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...On Monday, Murray praised Thompson’s “expertise in corporate governance and major project management”....
Rogues’ gallery, revisited
The affair highlights the responsibilities of in-house lawyers when warned of improper practices in their organisation
...A veteran German asset manager has blamed Volkswagen’s “flawed” corporate governance for its share price underperformance and criticised its controlling shareholders for failing to address the issue....
...A spokesperson for the STDC said the board “recognise” the report’s findings on governance and transparency and will “work at pace” to review and amend governance as necessary....
...Franklin Templeton says that Bucharest and London-listed Fondul has helped put a formerly little-known corner of Europe’s capital markets on the map after improving the corporate governance of Romanian state...
About two-thirds of US companies are incorporated in the small, mid-Atlantic state
...“It’s important for investors to set up a governance structure that monitors the management. Pointing the blame at the management exclusively may not be accurate.”...
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