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David F. Dando joins PIRC

David F. Dando has joined PIRC, Europe’s largest independent proxy agency, to run its custom services team.

David is a well-known figure in the corporate governance world, and has...
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A higher threshold for pay votes?

Companies could face a 75% threshold to pass resolutions relating to executive pay, Business Secretary Vince Cable told Parliament yesterday as he set out new reforms.

Cable revealed that...
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Hacking still haunts News Corp

Overall, 2011 was a bad year for News Corp, as the phone-hacking scandal wrecked its reputation. But already 2012 show signs of being little better.

With a backdrop of the ongoing Leveson...
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PIRC is in the DNA of the good corporate governance

“Let’s not forget how quickly yesterday’s heresy can become today’s mainstream opinion. Ten years ago PIRC was portrayed as pursuing a radical agenda. Now much of what PIRC said in the past is in the DNA of UK corporate governance. Back then many fund managers did not even vote, now the large majority do, and many try and vote intelligently rather than routinely supporting management.“
Brendan Barber
General Secretary, Trades Union Congress, October 2003