ESG Archive

The Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) annual conference and awards were held in Dubai this week, under the theme ‘The age of engagement’. After the dust had settled on the award winners, the speakers, the networking, the debates and the buzz generated by more than 100 IR professionals under one roof, the strongest sense to emerge was that the region has come a long way in terms of engagement, but that there still remains a long way to travel on the jou...

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) is seeing progress in its multi-year campaign to boost female representation in the boardroom – but is still finding that many companies are not taking action, according to a new report.  The firm states in its latest stewardship report that as of June 30, 2019, 43 percent of companies – repres...

The Thirty Percent Coalition’s national awareness campaign, launched in April, to promote women of color onto corporate boards is having a positive response ahead of a series of events in the fall, the organization reveals to IR Magazine. As part of its campaign in partnership with the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the coalition sent letters to companies in the S&P 1500 asking them to consider the value of adding women of color to their boards and invit...

WeWork has raised at least one set of seasoned corporate governance eyebrows with its CEO succession plans. The arrangement – featuring as it does a ‘pre-delegation’ of the process and the inclusion of the current CEO’s wife – is ‘quite unusual,’ a highly experienced corporate governance attorney tells Corporate Secretary, the sister publication of IR Magazine. The lawyer describes the plan as illustrative of a trend among companies g...