2020-05-04 | Share-owner stewardship in the UK, and SA by comparison | Stewardship Code |
2019-11-16 | Standard of conduct of a director | Directors |
2019-11-15 | Alternate Directors | Directors
Alternate directors |
2019-07-24 | Is 43 years on the board too long? | Corporate governance,
Directors,
Pick n Pay |
2019-07-19 | Why does a board opt to buy back the company’s shares? | Directors
Share buy-backs |
2019-06-07 | Is this the weakest remuneration policy & report ever? | Executive Remuneration |
2019-05-25 | GDPR – Lessons learned at the one-year anniversary | GDPR
POPI |
2019-05-21 | Company and director liability for climate change in Australia | Climate change |
2019-04-02 | Volkswagen: Poor culture meets high business risk | Governance
Corporate Culture |
2019-04-01 | Dinosaur governance in the age of unicorns | Ethics, Governance |
2019-02-21 | Revisting the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) | GDPR
PoPI Data security in SA |
2019-02-18 | The Transaction Capital Ltd 2019 AGM | Transaction Capital Ltd
Audit Committee |
2019-02-14 | The EOH Holdings Ltd 2019 AGM | EOH Holdings |
2019-02-05 | Data necessary to assess the social and environmental impact of funds, is lacking | Social and environmental impact |
2019-02-02 | The Astral Foods Ltd 2019 AGM | Astral Foods |
2019-02-02 | The Firstrand Ltd 2019 shareholder engagement non-event….. | Firstrand Ltd
Asset managers |
2019-01-23 | Xolobeni digs in its heels against miners’ habitual profiteering | Mining |
2019-01-22 | No more silent big short positions | FSCA |
2019-01-20 | The Power of Shareholder Votes: Evidence from Uncontested Director Elections | Directors |
2019-01-18 | US active funds suffer record $143bn ‘exodus’ in December | Asset Managers |
2019-01-016 | Virtuous Investing Finally Starts to Pay Off | Asset Managers
ESG |
2019-01-15 | The sustainability movement has disappeared. Where did it go? | Social and environmental impact |
2019-01-14 | Nampak AGM 2019 – Resolution to amend the MoI…. | MoI
Nampak Ltd |
2019-01-05 | Beyond the bottom line: should business put purpose before profit? | Asset Manager
ESG |
2018-12-28 | The trick to learning when to cut your losses…. | Asset Managers, Corporate finance |
2018-12-24 | Pension fund trustees in the spotlight | Fund managers |
2018-12-23 | The commas that cost companies millions…. | News |
2018-12-11 | Directors’ fee increases linked to CPI – can it be determined with accuracy? | Directors fees
Companies Act |
2018-12-03 | The Top 10 Socially Conscious Funds in the USA | ESG |
2018-12-01 | Shareholder Rights Directive review (“SRD II”) | Asset Managers
Corporate Governance |
2018-11-28 | Solvency and liquidity: the acid test for companies | Companies Act
Solvency and liquidity |
2018-11-28 | The independent non-executive director | Companies Act
Directors |
2018-11-26 | Disclosing director remuneration – what you need to know | Companies Act
Directors' fees |
2018-11-23 | Company records: who has right of access? | Companies Act |
2018-11-23 | Registered office and company records: what you need to know | Companies Act |
2018-11-21 | The Bidvest Group: Re-appointment of auditor | Auditors
Directors |
2018-11-18 | Remgro: access to executive remuneration details | Executive remuneration, Shareholder meetings |
2018-11-18 | Sasol: the not-so-small matter of fatalities | Executive remuneration |
2018-11-17 | RCL Foods: Non-executive directors’ fees | Companies Act
Directors' remuneration |
2018-11-05 | Tsogo Sun: The Second Joker in the Pack | Tsogo Sun;
Shareholder Meetings |
2018-11-05 | Garnishee orders, Tsogo-style | Tsogo Sun
Corporate Governance |
2018-09-28 | Standard Chartered to pull plug on financing for coal plants | Climate change |
2018-09-16 | SEC staff withdraws two no-action letters related to proxy advisory firms | Proxy Advisory Services |
2018-07-19 | UK Regulator puts Proxy Advisor methodologies under the spotlight | Proxy Advisory Services |
2018-07-12 | The average cost of a data breach in South Africa hits R36.5 million | PoPI
Data Breaches |
2018-07-04 | Banks Get Stress Tested. So Should Asset Managers. | Asset Managers |
2018-07-03 | Fined by CIPC for failure to submit AFS within 6 months | Compliance |
2018-06-25 | iXBRL – the digital financial reporting solution | XBRL |
2018-06-23 | Climate-change fiction is fast becoming scientific fact | Climate change |
2018-06-22 | Steinhoff Africa, Brait Put Shareholders on Hook for Manager Loans | Shareholders
STAR |
2018-06-21 | Throwing Retirees’ Money Into the Sea | Asset Managers
Social and environmental impact |
2018-06-20 | The CBA APRA Report: “required reading” for all directors | Corporate governance
Directors |
2018-06-19 | GDPR / PoPI data privacy security breaches | Compliance
Corporate governance |
2018-06-19 | Inverted Yield Curve Is Hiding in Plain Sight | Asset Managers |
2018-06-13 | WPP board facing irate shareholders….. | Directors
Shareholder meetings |
2018-06-11 | Beware the ‘mother of all credit bubbles’ | Corporate finance
Investments and returns |
2018-06-08 | The most epic failure of corporate governance in the annals of American capitalism perhaps? | Corporate Governance |
2018-06-07 | Sanlam Investments failing CRISA voting disclosure test | Corporate governance
Directors |
2018-05-31 | Europe’s Largest Asset Manager Sees ‘Tipping Point’ on Climate | Climate change |
2018-05-29 | Failing governance at STAR – more questions than answers…. | Auditors
Corporate governance
Directors |
2018-05-28 | When personal liability for trustees kicks in… | Trustees of retirement funds |
2018-05-27 | Another wolf at the door: the proxy advisory firm | Proxy Advisory Services |
2018-05-26 | Blocking online access doesn't get you off the GDPR or PoPI hook | Compliance
Corporate Governance |
2018-05-22 | This way down for serious governance oversights | Corporate Governance
Directors |
2018-05-21 | GDPR becomes fully enforceable on 25 May 2018 | Corporate Governance |
2018-05-18 | HNA Group sells out of Comair | Investments and returns |
2018-05-01 | Why Banking Scandals Will Continue | Corruption
Ethics and corporate culture
Retirement Funds |
2018-04-30 | Leaders who keep their fingers clean and hands dirty | Directors,
Shareholder activism
Ethics and corporate culture |
2018-04-21 | The courage to speak up at a board meeting. | Directors |
2018-04-20 | NED chairman’s fees not approved – what now? | Directors' fees |
2018-04-19 | Boards must manage the corporate culture challenge | Ethics and culture |
2018-04-13 | From a lack of good governance to corruption but a small step | Corporate Governance |
2018-04-12 | UK not good to launder your money anymore | Corruption |
2018-04-10 | Mining BEE – “Once empowered always empowered” court ruling may have far wider ramifications | Mining |
2018-04-09 | Steinhoff – this way down when paying too much for poor businesses | Directors |
2018-04-04 | Steinhoff director defends remuneration largesse | Directors' fees |
2018-03-30 | Engaging on director nominations | Directors |
2018-03-28 | Steinhoff Pressured to Halt ‘Unseemly’ Director-Bonus Plans | Directors' fees |
2018-03-28 | CIPC worried Steinhoff and other multinationals escape parts of SA law | Compliance |
2018-03-28 | Businesses are at sea over Companies Act obligations | Compliance |
2018-03-28 | Corporate equity derivatives – the $3.5bn opague business on Wall Street | Corporate finance |
2018-03-27 | As one elephant vanishes, at least two others appear | Fund management |
2018-03-24 | ‘You have to face your owners’ | Shareholders |
2018-03-23 | Down with exorbitant platform fees, down! | Asset Managers |
2018-03-20 | Court rules on applying for credit | Compliance |
2018-03-20 | STAR overpowers minorities’ pushback at first annual meeting | Shareholder meetings |
2018-03-18 | STAR to distance itself from Steinhoff | Shareholders |
2018-03-13 | ‘Investors need to push for appropriate incentives’ | Asset Managers |
2018-03-12 | STAR saddled with hugely expensive acquisitions by Steinhoff | Directors |
2018-03-12 | SA’s corporates must wake up to social and environmental roles | Social and environmental impact |
2018-03-07 | SA counts cost of poor governance | Corporate Governance |
2018-03-07 | Life is about to get tougher for small pension funds | Retirement Funds |
2018-03-04 | Submission of AFS to CIPC using xBRL | iXBRL |
2018-02-27 | Corporate governance principles can help boards spot fraudulent activities | Directors
Corporate Governance |
2018-02-27 | Retirement funds – let’s talk about the elephant in the room | Asset Managers
Retirement Funds |
2018-01-29 | Governance and leadership | Corporate Governance
Directors |
2018-01-23 | CIPC’s net should catch other big fish | Compliance
Corporate Governance |
2018-01-22 | A Sense of Purpose | Corporate Governance
Directors |
2018-01-15 | Serious reputational damage suffered by Steinhoff ‘stars’ | Corporate Governance
Directors |
2018-01-12 | The role of shareholder advisory firms | Proxy Advisory Services |
2018-01-12 | US House of Representatives moves to regulate proxy-advisory firms | Proxy Advisory Services |
2018-01-11 | Finding signs of accounting irregularities and potential fraud | Asset Manager
Corporate Governance |
2017-12-24 | Rise of shareholder activism in Australia | Shareholder meetings |
2017-11-06 | Paradise Papers: SA names aplenty in huge tax leak | Compliance
Directors |
2017-11-02 | Shoprite makes about-turn on exec pay | Executive Remuneration |
2017-10-09 | Eskom is rotten to the core | Corruption
Corporate governance |
2017-09-24 | A bribe by any other name | Corruption
Directors |
2017-09-11 | Auditor rotation tops PIC’s list of governance issues | Auditors |
2017-09-11 | Audit regulator says support for auditor rotation is growing | Auditors |
2017-09-03 | How investors are shaking up company meetings | Asset Managers
Shareholder meetings |
2017-08-14 | Are SA’s asset managers starting to find their activist voice? | Shareholder meetings
Asset Managers |
2017-08-13 | Spotlight On Boards And Shareholder Activism | Shareholders activists |
2017-07-11 | Should asset managers be acting on CEO pay? | Executive remuneration
Asset Managers |
2017-05-10 | Activist investors - What are they, what tactics do they use and how do you stop them? | Asset Managers
Shareholder Activists |
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