2019 Policy Guideline Updates: United Kingdom, France, Italy, and more

Glass Lewis’ Policy Guidelines provide an overview of our approach to governance and proxy research. Updated guidelines are now available for Denmark, Continental Europe, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom, and updates to other markets will be released soon. Current [...]

By |2021-04-08T14:52:03-07:00November 14, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on 2019 Policy Guideline Updates: United Kingdom, France, Italy, and more

2019 Policy Guideline Updates: United States, Canada, Shareholder Initiatives, Israel

Glass Lewis’ Policy Guidelines provide an overview of our approach to governance and proxy research. Updated guidelines are now available for the United States, Canada, Israel, and Shareholder Initiatives, and updates to other markets will be [...]

By |2021-04-08T14:52:08-07:00October 24, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on 2019 Policy Guideline Updates: United States, Canada, Shareholder Initiatives, Israel

California Senate Votes for Board Gender Quotas

Gender diversity in California boardrooms is already best practice. It could soon become the law of the land, after the State Senate approved a bill that includes the first boardroom gender quotas in the United [...]

By |2022-05-12T23:43:56-07:00July 3, 2018|Blog|Comments Off on California Senate Votes for Board Gender Quotas

FRC Announces UK Governance Code Changes, Consultation

Proposed changes to the UK Corporate Governance Code centre on hot-button issues like corporate culture, executive pay, diversity and shareholder engagement, incorporating suggestions made in the UK government’s plans for corporate governance reform and an [...]

By |2021-04-08T14:53:06-07:00December 7, 2017|Blog|Comments Off on FRC Announces UK Governance Code Changes, Consultation

Parker Review Issues UK Board Diversity Recommendations

Less than a year since its launch in November 2016, the Parker Review Committee’s “A report into the Ethnic Diversity of UK Boards” has been published following a consultation process. The report contains the committee’s [...]

By |2021-04-08T14:53:14-07:00October 26, 2017|Blog|Comments Off on Parker Review Issues UK Board Diversity Recommendations

2017 Season Preview – North America

Glass Lewis presents a preview of the upcoming 2017 proxy season for the United States and Canadian markets. Senior members of the Glass Lewis research team discuss key topics and expectations for the 2017 proxy [...]

By |2021-04-08T14:53:58-07:00March 14, 2017|Blog, Proxy Talks|Comments Off on 2017 Season Preview – North America

Broadening the Boardroom

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has recently backtracked on her proposals to increase employee representation on boards. It was an idea which had largely been confined to the wilderness of UK governance for several decades [...]

By |2021-04-08T14:54:05-07:00January 9, 2017|Blog|Comments Off on Broadening the Boardroom