January 7, 2010
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 company owners to …… continue reading >>
December 23, 2009
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 have decided to award …… continue reading >>
December 11, 2009
David Wighton of The Times writes about the problems of low turnout at shareholder meetings. “
Shareholders have to get out there and vote” describes the problems facing Minerva, the property company fighting off a bid from 29.9 per cent shareholder Nathan Kirsh, and Mitchells & Butler, the UK’s biggest ……
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October 20, 2009
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 of executive incentives. He …… continue reading >>
October 8, 2009
The Manifest/MM&K Total Remuneration Survey 2009 was published this week. Here is the press coverage it has received so far:
Bloomberg: Chief executive officers at Britain’s leading 100 companies received pay increases last year even as the FTSE 100 Index fell the most on record and may be handed more this year after the stock …… continue reading >>
September 18, 2009
Financial News, the weekly journal from the Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal stable has published its 2009 survey of Top 100 Women in Financial Markets. This is the survey’s third year of publication and Manifest’s CEO, Sarah Wilson has joined the list for the first time.
The unranked list contains some familiar City names and is drawn …… continue reading >>
September 14, 2009
September has been a busy month so far with a number of newspapers and websites picking up our analysis of voting trends around Europe.
BBC >>
City AM >>
Directorship >>
De Tijd >>
Evening …… continue reading >>
September 14, 2009
The Guardian’s annual survey of executive pay has been published, and reveals a 10% increase in basic salary for executives at FTSE 100 companies. Today’s Guardian editorial cites voting data from Manifest noting that dissenting votes on remuneration reports in the year to 31 July was circa 12% while dissent on long-term incentive plans ……
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