Corporate governance

Aims to stop firms hoarding cash is working

Recent calls for tighter remuneration rules

As more groups move to include ESG factors within their fund strategies, Baillie Gifford's director of corporate governance Marianne Harper Gow argues analysis in this area is too 'simplistic' and many processes are undermining the research effort

AGM held earlier today

300 firms at risk

The Volkswagen scandal is only the latest in a long line of auto failures, according to Esmé van Herwijnen, SRI analyst at EdenTree Investment Management

Major Sports Direct shareholder Crispin Odey has criticised the FTSE 100 firm's 14-month delay in appointing a finance director as a "big concern".

The bears are "sharpening their knives" for Japan despite encouraging signs in the longer term, the managers of the Ruffer investment trust have warned.

Nikko Asset Management is separating out its chairman and CEO roles, and has appointed ex-Nomura executive Takumi Shibata as director and chairman ahead of a planned IPO.

Alison Carnwath, the head of the Barclays remuneration committee that approved former CEO Bob Diamond's £17m pay package earlier this year, has left the bank.