While workers have taken a Covid hit to their pay, US bosses continue to do far better...

Shareholder adviser ISS urges investors to withhold support for compensation committee...

US regulators want to revitalise shareholder democracy by ensuring the views of Main Street investors on issues such as climate change and executive pay are accurately reflected by investment managers. Allison Herren Lee, acting chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said it was time to ensure that small investors were able to hold companies and their top executives to account by improving the transparency and disclosure standards governing shareholder votes...

Top financial regulator to push listed companies to strengthen boards with more independent directors...

Last Friday afternoon, moments after the resignation of Yoshiro Mori as president of the Tokyo Olympics committee, a board member of one of the games’ largest sponsor companies texted me a terse Japanese proverb: “A lid has been placed on the thing that stinks...

Executives raise fears with ministers as premiums to cover serving on boards double and may climb further...

Morgan Stanley’s chief executive, James Gorman, will receive $33m in total compensation for 2020, a 22 per cent increase over 2019’s $27M...

US bank says compensation package reflects strong performance through pandemic...

French group under pressure to replace chief executive over ‘disappointing’ share price...

The Wirecard affair, the latest in a series of corporate scandals in Germany, raises an important question. Why does Germany find it so difficult to protect investors? Those outside Germany who admire the Rhineland model for its seemingly enlightened form of capitalism ought to examine the Wirecard collapse in detail...

When Janus Capital and Henderson Global Investors agreed a deal in 2016, it was touted as being transformative for the two struggling midsized asset managers...

Questions over benefits of pushing for any deal between two underperforming asset managers...

Premiums were already rising because of an increase in class actions when coronavirus struck...

The US Department of Labor has been accused of bowing to pressure from corporate lobbyists after it proposed “draconian” rules that critics argued would undermine shareholder democracy...

Companies that rank highly on corporate social responsibility measures are more likely to be the target of hedge fund activism, academic research has found...

When RWC’s Japan Active Engagement team started work more than 15 years ago, “activism” was associated with high-profile attempts by mainly foreign investors to force change at Japanese companies through ownership...

One of the most influential shareholder advisers has called on US companies to disclose the ethnicities of their directors and senior executives, as pressure builds to diversify the upper echelons of corporate America...

Businesses that have championed inclusion are under pressure to make good on diversity pledges...

Swedish group bets on potential for new management to turn round struggling education group...

Could board directors and executives have anticipated the pandemic? Yes, responded Louise Pentland, an executive at PayPal, the payments company, and a non-executive director of Japan’s Hitachi, during a recent webinar...