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Is Governance Going Green? The Influence of Environmental and Social Issues on Corporate Governance and Investing

Photo of Samantha Sarkozi (Toronto)By Samantha Sarkozi (Toronto) on Posted in Corporate Governance
With the heightened awareness of climate change, wage disparities, gender inequality and the like, the effects of these and other environmental and social (E&S) issues are widespread, extending as far as topics like corporate governance and investing. In fact, in its report entitled “2018 Canadian Proxy Season Review” (the Review), Kingsdale Advisors (Kingsdale) notes a … Continue reading

Key takeaways from the first half of 2015

By Guy White on Posted in Securities
ISS’ preliminary postseason review for 2015 provides a report on U.S. activism trends in 2015.  ISS identifies five key takeaways from the first half of 2015: Proxy access proposals arrived in a big way this season, with almost 120 proposals and average votes in favour of 54.4% (a jump of more than 20 percentage points from … Continue reading
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