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The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has appointed The Co-operative Asset Management (TCAM) and Manifest to support its responsible investment strategy. In an innovative joint tender, TCAM and Manifest outlined an robust solution to manage and develop NEST’s evolving stewardship responsibilities. TCAM, which currently has over £20 billion of assets under management, offers …… continue reading >> As Manifest continues its increase in global coverage, we are delighted to announce that from October 2011, Manifest has a branch office operating in Melbourne, Australia. We are delighted to be working with Mark Bytheway and the team at the Sustainable Research Institute, SIRIS, to offer Asian investors an Asia-Pacific focussed governance …… continue reading >> IR Magazine has been looking at shareholder activism in Europe and quotes Manifest: A different style of activism?Historically, there have been obstacles to waging a successful activist campaign in much of Europe. Many markets are opaque, the proxy voting system has been leaky with votes often lost, and some countries still block …… continue reading >> Recent quotes by Manifest on topical corporate governance issues: Protest vote against Prudential chairman >>Financial Times, May 19 2011 Conservative MP leads charge for tougher audits >>Financial News, May 18th 2011 Backlash grows over power of proxy >>Financial News, May 17th 2011 The Wall Street Journal and Financial News have picked up Manifest’s recent article on remuneration report defeats. As highlighted in our posting on the Punch Taverns they joined a select list of five FTSE All Share companies to have seen their remuneration reports defeated. As the article states, getting …… continue reading >> Four of the Swedish buffer funds (AP1, AP2, AP3 and AP4) this week announced the appointment of a provider of global voting services: “The First to Fourth AP Funds (The Funds) have carried out a procurement of a Global Voting Service. After extensive evaluation of different suppliers and their systems, we …… continue reading >> Linking bonuses to the granting of shares or options seems a good idea . . . … but it is not as simple as that and Britain’s businesses can see the pitfalls that many others cannot. Jamie Stevenson of University of Exeter Business School writes in the Times and discusses the problems …… continue reading >> |
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