The Irish Independent and the Daily Telegraph have picked up Manifest’s story about the Ryanair shareholder resolutions at Aer Lingus’ upcoming AGM. “The Manifest Proxy Voting agency, a company that monitors corporate governance here and in the UK, has alleged that Ryanair is the only company not to reveal on its website how shareholders voted […]
Read MoreMears Group, which moved its listing from AIM to the Official List in June 2008, has fallen significantly short of the requirements of the UK Companies Act in the drafting of its remuneration report for the 2008 financial year. As a main market company, Mears is now obliged to meet the requirements of Schedule 7A of […]
Read MoreThe dominance of the Big 4 audit firms continues to be a cause for concern according to a report by the UK’s reporting and governance watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council. The FRC has published the third of its Progress Reports outlining the progress of the 15 recommendations made by the Market Participants Group (MPG) in October 2007 […]
Read MoreShareholder engagement is on the up according to the UK’s Investment Management Association which has just published its fifth annual Engagement Survey. The report brings together a review of IMA members general approach to voting disclosure between July 2007 and July 2008 as well as taking a look at seven contentious issue case studies. The […]
Read MoreRyanair is asking the Aer Lingus to cut the salaries of its Chairman, Colm Barrington and the non-executive directors due to the airline’s ‘stated need to significantly reduce costs’. Ryanair, a 29.8% shareholder in Aer Lingus, has requisitioned two resolutions at the Aer Lingus’ 5 June AGM. Earlier this year all Aer Lingus Board members voluntarily […]
Read MoreOwners of USA Inc today (May 20) got the news they’ve been waiting for – the SEC has voted to propose new rules which will enable them to nominate their own board candidates. The proposal was passed in a narrow 3-2 vote reflecting party alliegances; both the Republican commissioners voted against the proposal on the basis […]
Read MoreEarlier this year Manifest was approached by Channel 4’s Dispatches documentary team to help them with a review of executive pay following the revelations of Sir Fred Goodwin’s pension arrangements. In this episode, “Britain’s Bankers: Still Cashing In”, Manifest works with journalist Jane Moore to help her understand the complexities of executive pay and look back […]
Read MoreThe Financial Times The Shell No vote was the second biggest against a UK company’s remuneration report this year, topped only by the 80 per cent of votes cast against Royal Bank of Scotland, according to Manifest, the voting agency. Link >> The Guardian The vote against the Shell pay report was the second biggest […]
Read MoreRoyal Dutch Shell today suffered one of the UK’s all time biggest ever shareholder revolts with a 57.1% vote Against the remuneration report vote. Since the introduction of the Directors Remuneration Report Regulations in 2002 only two other FTSE100 companies have lost their say on pay vote: RBS in 2009 with 80.14% and GlaxoSmithKline in 2003 with 38% Against, […]
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