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...

UK’s LGIM adds to pressure on US oil major over governance and climate change...

In the pre-coronavirus world, Kimberley Lewis spent much of her working life trying to lift executives’ sights from day-to-day pressures to the ways they could become better, more responsible corporate citizens...

US regulator rethinks plan to force advisory firms to submit voting recommendations to companies...

Hedge fund chief bets on stockmarket recovery after profiting from coronavirus sell-off...

Occidental Petroleum has deployed a “poison pill” to prevent a hostile takeover, a day after hedge fund investor Carl Icahn almost quadrupled his stake in the US oil producer and called for its chief executive to be fired...

HSBC has appointed Jamie Forese, formerly a top executive at Citigroup, as a director, adding an experienced US banker to its board as it seeks to turn round its struggling North American business...

We are in the midst of a corporate governance pivot from short term stockholder returns towards stakeholder capitalism that values the interests of employees, the environment, customers and the world at large...

An activist investor is urging Colony Capital to halt any related-party deals that could benefit its chief executive Tom Barrack, and is calling for an independent investigation into management decisions that have led to the company’s shares falling nearly 70 per cent in three years...

Japan’s most famous family of shareholder activists has threatened to hit a leading Toshiba subsidiary with a hostile takeover bid later this week, upping the stakes in a pivotal corporate governance battle...

When banks harm customers and preventable wildfires rage, corporate boards are remade and top executives are fired. Since 2016, when US regulators revealed that Wells Fargo had opened millions of unauthorised accounts, nine of 14 members of the bank’s board of directors have stepped down, and the chief executive has changed twice...

Study finds companies turning to same candidates as they strive to meet diversity targets...

Carmaker does not intend to ‘dispute the alleged facts’ or amount of the penalty...

The proportion of women on the boards of the UK’s most valuable 350 public companies has exceeded 30 per cent for the first time, a campaign group said on Tuesday...

Asset manager Neuberger Berman is planning to nominate three directors to the board of the software company Verint Systems as the firm continues to embrace more vocal activist tactics...

Crystal Amber, the activist investor that built large positions in confectioner Thorntons and airline Aer Lingus before the companies received takeover bids, is cashing in from causing trouble...