All Director nominations articles
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Thought leadershipHolding boards accountable for ESG: A business case
This article sets out the case for investors to ensure that investee company boards are held accountable when it comes to sustainability.
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Discussion paperHow to consider tax in voting practices
Voting is an essential channel for investors to communicate their expectations on tax in a clear and quantifiable manner.
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ArticleAGM season during the COVID-19 pandemic: trends and themes
The 2020 AGM season has been unique. The record levels of support seen across 2019’s environmental and social proposals, alongside increasingly urgent climate action and commitments by huge corporates and investors to stakeholder capitalism, set the stage for an interesting season. In addition to this, the COVID-19 crisis has, in ...
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News and press
New guide reinforces benefits of engagement on director nominations
The PRI has launched a paper outlining the benefits and challenges of investor-company dialogue on director nominations, featuring best practices and lessons learnt from the US and France.
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Engagement guide
Recommendations for engagement on director nominations
As a result of the analysis presented in this report, investors are encouraged to continue discussions with their investee companies on director nominations.
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Engagement guideResults from French engagement on director nominations
As with the US, investors chose to engage with 11 French companies ranked in the lower 50% of all CAC40 company performance based on their nominations process.
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Engagement guideResults from US engagement on director nominations
The 13 US companies investors selected for engagement in 2014 ranked in the lower 50% of all S&P100 company performance on nominations processes when assessed against indicators included in the commissioned research.
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Engagement guideDirector nominations engagement background
After consulting with signatories and acknowledging the critical importance of the nominations process to longterm investor returns, the PRI coordinated a collaborative engagement on the issue.
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Engagement guideEngaging on director nominations
Director nominations and elections represent some of the most fundamental ownership rights for shareholders – namely the right to appoint and remove members of a company board to represent their interests in promoting long-term value creation.
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Blog post
Professor Susan Vinnicombe on The Davies Committee
“It was a very successful campaign.” That is how Professor Susan Vinnicombe describes the outcome of the 2015 Davies Report.
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Blog post
Opening the Black Box of Board Appointments – women’s and men’s routes to the boardroom
Professor Elisabeth Kelan talks about new report Opening the Black Box of Board Appointments: Women’s and Men’s Routes to the Boardroom and what it reveals about the current state of gender diversity in the boardroom.
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Discussion paper
Director nomination process: Discussion paper - Part 2
The second part of the discussion paper on the director nomination process includes detailed reviews of the nomination process in seven national jurisdictions.
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Discussion paperDirector nomination process: Discussion paper - Part 1
Part one of the discussion paper presents an overview of the director nominations process.
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Blog post
Long-term capitalism
In these articles, Barton and Wiseman outline their view that the short-term approaches to managing and investing in companies, approaches which were responsible for the financial crisis, still exist.
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Academic researchRI Quarterly Vol. 3: Long-termism in financial markets
Why is there so little academic research on long termism in financial markets?
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Blog post
Board quality and the cost of debt capital: the case of bank loans
While corporate governance factors are often thought of as important issues for shareholders, in particular the characteristics and quality of the board of directors, less attention is given to their relevance for creditors. This paper explores the issue by focusing on the impact of board quality on a company’s cost ...
